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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 10/21] thermal/drivers/exynos: convert to use devm_request*_irq_probe()
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On 10/07/2023 11:59, Yangtao Li wrote:
> There are more than 700 calls to devm_request_threaded_irq method and
> more than 1000 calls to devm_request_irq method. Most drivers only
> request one interrupt resource, and these error messages are basically
> the same. If error messages are printed everywhere, more than 2000 lines
> of code can be saved by removing the msg in the driver.
>
> And tglx point out that:
>
> If we actually look at the call sites of
> devm_request_threaded_irq() then the vast majority of them print more or
> less lousy error messages. A quick grep/sed/awk/sort/uniq revealed
>
> 519 messages total (there are probably more)
>
> 352 unique messages
>
> 323 unique messages after lower casing
>
> Those 323 are mostly just variants of the same patterns with
> slight modifications in formatting and information provided.
>
> 186 of these messages do not deliver any useful information,
> e.g. "no irq", "
>
> The most useful one of all is: "could request wakeup irq: %d"
>
> So there is certainly an argument to be made that this particular
> function should print a well formatted and informative error message.
>
> It's not a general allocator like kmalloc(). It's specialized and in the
> vast majority of cases failing to request the interrupt causes the
> device probe to fail. So having proper and consistent information why
> the device cannot be used _is_ useful.
>
> So convert to use devm_request*_irq_probe() API, which ensure that all
> error handling branches print error information.
>
> In this way, when this function fails, the upper-layer functions can
> directly return an error code without missing debugging information.
> Otherwise, the error message will be printed redundantly or missing.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
> Cc: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
> ---


Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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