[PATCH] [MTD] phram: cleanup error handling and associated messages

Jörn Engel joern at logfs.org
Wed Jun 17 07:24:50 EDT 2009


On Wed, 17 June 2009 06:50:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> The error handling in the phram driver is pretty bad -- in many places,
> errors are silently ignored or logged, but then still ignored in the
> return value.  So convert all of the code to pass back the correct return
> value and log error messages properly (and using the new pr_fmt() helper).

I don't remember why I always returned 0 in phram_setup.  Could well
have been an oversight.

> If everything does go smoothly, rather than exit silently, dump a helpful
> info message like pretty much every other MTD driver does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>

Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>

Care to take over maintainership?  I haven't used this driver in ages
and don't foresee using it anytime soon.

Jörn

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