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| author | Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> | 2019-05-18 23:27:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> | 2019-07-08 15:13:01 +0200 |
| commit | b608075e4bd6ad21968e8bfddd396c43b625e2b1 (patch) | |
| tree | b55e81aff52f0ee44d1cf0f5a96b62a77c77a70f /drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | |
| parent | 80030425e0207172cd68a8952c5054db85ffa85f (diff) | |
watchdog: let core print error message when registering device fails
So we can remove boilerplate code from drivers.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c index 9fd096af0cc5..cf3247224a6e 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c @@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd) int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd) { + const char *dev_str; int ret = 0; mutex_lock(&wtd_deferred_reg_mutex); @@ -272,6 +273,14 @@ int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd) else watchdog_deferred_registration_add(wdd); mutex_unlock(&wtd_deferred_reg_mutex); + + if (ret) { + dev_str = wdd->parent ? dev_name(wdd->parent) : + (const char *)wdd->info->identity; + pr_err("%s: failed to register watchdog device (err = %d)\n", + dev_str, ret); + } + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(watchdog_register_device); |