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SubjectRe: [patch v11 - re-ordered 03/12] FIXME platform/mellanox: Remove redundant dev_err messages on device_create
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:41:17PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:59:32PM +0000, Vadim Pasternak wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvhart@infradead.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 11:47 PM
> > > To: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@mellanox.com>
> > > Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-
> > > kernel@vger.kernel.org; platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org; jiri@resnulli.us
> > > Subject: Re: [patch v11 - re-ordered 03/12] FIXME platform/mellanox: Remove
> > > redundant dev_err messages on device_create
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 08:33:37PM +0000, Vadim Pasternak wrote:
> > > > The upper layer will manage and report errors returned by the create
> > > > and destroy functions.
> > > >
> > > > FIXME: but it doesn't - we don't even check
> > >
> > > I think we agreed to just drop this patch entirely, since this error is not checked
> > > elsewhere? Keeping the dev_err messages?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, we'll keep it.
> > We just had conflict in patch order and I wanted to fix it, staying as much as
> > possible aligned with the top of mellanox v10 branch.
> >
> > However currently we still have a problem in mellanox v11 after patch
> > platform/mellanox: mlxreg-hotplug: Modify to use a regmap interface
> > It dropped parameter device in mlxreg_hotplug_device_create, which is
> > Used inside the routine.
> >
> > I'll send a separate patch to fix it from top of v11. In other case it'll be
> > necessary to fix Modify to use a regmap interface and re-send all from
> > 5-th patch in series.
> >
> > Also we should drop the patch:
> > platform/x86: mlx-platform: Simplify IO access to regmap context
> > It introduced the issue reported by sparse.
> >
> > I am resending two last patches from review-dvhart-mellanox-v11 branch
> > and also patch with fix for mlxreg_hotplug_device_create, as:
> > 0010-platform-x86-mlx-platform-Extend-register-map-config.patch
> > 0011-platform-mellanox-mlxreg-hotplug-Add-check-for-negat.patch
> > 0012-platform-mellanox-mlxreg-hotplug-Fix-issue-of-commit.patch
> >
> > Thank you very much for your help,
>
> OK, please see review-dvhart-mellanox-v12 on infradead or github. I've verified
> this passes a clean C=1 (sparse) build at each patch. I believe this is in a
> state that can be moved to testing. Please confirm.
>
> If you still want to move the dev_err messages out of the create function, we
> can do that separately. Let's get this merged so we can move forward.

I'm pushing v12 into testing, shortly to for-next, and then on to Linus. Please
speak up if there are any objections.

--
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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