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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers: iio: Drop unnecessary explicit casting
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On 21/03/20 5:56 pm, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 15:37 +0530, Nishant Malpani wrote:
>> Provide correct specifiers while printing error logs to discard the use
>> of unnecessary explicit casting.
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9-i2c.c b/drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9-i2c.c
> []
>> @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ static int kxsd9_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
>>
>> regmap = devm_regmap_init_i2c(i2c, &config);
>> if (IS_ERR(regmap)) {
>> - dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to register i2c regmap %d\n",
>> - (int)PTR_ERR(regmap));
>> + dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to register i2c regmap %ld\n",
>> + PTR_ERR(regmap));
>
> Another option would be to use %pe to print the error identifier
> and not the error number
>
By 'error identifier' you mean the symbolic error name (as described in
docs [1]), right? Yes, to me, it makes sense too, as it would be more
"readable" during debugging. Jonathan, if you agree, do I send a
patchset replacing with %pe specifier for all the drivers in consideration?

With regards,
Nishant Malpani

[1]
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/printk-formats.html#error-pointers

> etc...
>
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