[PATCH 4/5] devfreq: Use %pe to print error pointers symbolically

Sumeet Pawnikar sumeet4linux at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 12:07:38 PDT 2026


On Sun, Sep 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On 06/09/2026 08:17, Sumeet Pawnikar wrote:
> >               ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> > -             dev_err(dev, "failed to add devfreq device: %ld\n",
> > -                     PTR_ERR(drv->devfreq));
> > +             dev_err(dev, "failed to add devfreq device: %pe\n",
> > +                     drv->devfreq);
>
> Instead you should use dev_err_probe and drop the last argument.
>
Sure. I'll do this suggested usage of dev_err_probe in different patch
series for *_probe() functions update.

Planning to post V2 for this original series to use %pe to print the
error pointers symbolically, reverting the change for dev_err under
*_porbe() function.

Thanks,
Sumeet.

>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof



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