[PATCH 1/2] nvme-pci: Print error message on failure in nvme_probe

[Chaitanya Kulkarni]

On 10/20/25 08:29, Gerd Bayer wrote:
> Add a new error message like
> nvme nvme0: probe failed on 2004:00:00.0 (result: -19)
> that makes failures to probe visible in the kernel log.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index c916176bd9f058b49e6e6768675711df52b15765..7544c4bac2c4a230d32cf729abb9e94bf93a921f 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -3519,6 +3519,8 @@ static int nvme_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
>   out_dev_unmap:
>   	nvme_dev_unmap(dev);
>   out_uninit_ctrl:
> +	dev_err(dev->ctrl.device, "probe failed on %s (result: %d)\n",
> +		dev_name(&pdev->dev), result);

is it really have to be dev_err ? or dev_dbg would work ?


>   	nvme_uninit_ctrl(&dev->ctrl);
>   out_put_ctrl:
>   	nvme_put_ctrl(&dev->ctrl);
>

-ck