Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2026-06-01

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] dinghai: add ZTE network driver support

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2026-06-01 14:21:48
Also in: lkml

+static int dh_pf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
+{
+	struct zxdh_pf_device *pf_dev;
+	struct dh_core_dev *dh_dev;
+	struct devlink *devlink;
+	int ret;
+
+	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "dh_pf probe start\n");
Please don't spam the kernel log.
+	ret = dh_pf_pci_init(dh_dev);
+	if (ret) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "dh_pf_pci_init failed: %d\n", ret);
+		goto err_cfg_init;
+	}
+
+	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "dh_pf probe completed\n");
+
+	return 0;
+
+err_cfg_init:
+	mutex_destroy(&pf_dev->irq_lock);
+	mutex_destroy(&dh_dev->lock);
+	dh_core_free_priv(dh_dev);
+err_pf_dev:
+	devlink_free(devlink);
+	return -ENOMEM;
dh_pf_pci_init() returns an error code. You should use it here. It
makes the code hard to debug when the higher level is ENOMEM, but the
lower is saying EINVAL or something.
+static void dh_pf_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
+{
+	struct dh_core_dev *dh_dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
+	struct devlink *devlink = priv_to_devlink(dh_dev);
+	struct zxdh_pf_device *pf_dev = dh_dev->priv;
+
+	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "dh_pf remove start\n");
More log spamming. Drivers mostly use dev_err() for when things have
gone wrong, and dev_dbg() for debug. Other levels exists, but they are
not really used. If you do use them, they need to be for good reasons.

	Andrew
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