When registering a thermal zone device, we currently return -EINVAL in four cases. This makes it a little hard to debug the real cause of the failure.
Print some error messages to make it easier for developer to figure out what happened. Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <[email protected]> --- drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c index 46cfb7de4eb28..95c3a4c649cf8 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c @@ -1238,17 +1238,26 @@ thermal_zone_device_register(const char *type, int trips, int mask, int count; struct thermal_governor *governor; - if (!type || strlen(type) == 0) + if (!type || strlen(type) == 0) { + pr_err("Error: No thermal zone type defined"); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } - if (type && strlen(type) >= THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH) + if (type && strlen(type) >= THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH) { + pr_err("Error: Thermal zone name (%s) too long, should be under %d chars", + type, THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } - if (trips > THERMAL_MAX_TRIPS || trips < 0 || mask >> trips) + if (trips > THERMAL_MAX_TRIPS || trips < 0 || mask >> trips) { + pr_err("Error: Incorrect number of thermal trips"); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } - if (!ops) + if (!ops) { + pr_err("Error: Thermal zone device ops not defined"); return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } if (trips > 0 && (!ops->get_trip_type || !ops->get_trip_temp)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); -- 2.17.1
