driver core: add device probe log helper

During probe every time driver gets resource it should usually check for
error printk some message if it is not -EPROBE_DEFER and return the error.
This pattern is simple but requires adding few lines after any resource
acquisition code, as a result it is often omitted or implemented only
partially.
dev_err_probe helps to replace such code sequences with simple call,
so code:
	if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
		dev_err(dev, ...);
	return err;
becomes:
	return dev_err_probe(dev, err, ...);

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713144324.23654-2-a.hajda@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index a120657d7587..065c24008f8b 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -962,6 +962,9 @@ void device_link_remove(void *consumer, struct device *supplier);
 void device_links_supplier_sync_state_pause(void);
 void device_links_supplier_sync_state_resume(void);
 
+extern __printf(3, 4)
+int dev_err_probe(const struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, ...);
+
 /* Create alias, so I can be autoloaded. */
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(major,minor) \
 	MODULE_ALIAS("char-major-" __stringify(major) "-" __stringify(minor))