Re: [PATCH] drivers/video/pmagb-b-fb.c: Improve diagnostics

[Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>]

Hello,

>  Add error messages to the probe call.

You added them but probably forgot to return them ;)

>  While they may rarely trigger, they may be useful when something weird is 
> going on.  Also this is good style.

[snip]
 
> patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-pmagb-b-err-1
> diff -up --recursive --new-file 
> linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/video/pmagb-b-fb.c 
> linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/video/pmagb-b-fb.c
> --- linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/video/pmagb-b-fb.c       
> 2006-12-16 16:44:41.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/video/pmagb-b-fb.c     2006-12-16 
> 16:44:52.000000000 +0000
> @@ -254,16 +254,23 @@ static int __init pmagbbfb_probe(struct 
>       struct pmagbbfb_par *par;
>       char freq0[12], freq1[12];
>       u32 vid_base;
> +     int err = 0;  

[snip]

> -     if (register_framebuffer(info) < 0)
> +     err = register_framebuffer(info);
> +     if (err < 0) {
> +             printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot register framebuffer\n",
> +                    dev->bus_id);
>               goto err_smem_map;
> +     }
>  
>       get_device(dev);

Sth like this is missing?

@@ -330,7 +350,7 @@ err_cmap:

 err_alloc:
        framebuffer_release(info);
-       return -ENXIO;
+       return err;
 }

No?

Regards,

        Mariusz