From: Mika Westerberg Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:17:07 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ACPI / watchdog: Print out error number when device creation fails X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6e2c1e1138fa5cb5bb99381132855bbaf712029;p=linux-beck.git ACPI / watchdog: Print out error number when device creation fails If the platform device creation fails for whichever reason the driver prints out something like: [ 0.978837] ACPI: watchdog: Failed to create platform device However, that is quite confusing and does not include any information why it failed. To make it more understandable, reword it like: [ 0.978837] ACPI: watchdog: Device creation failed: -16 Which tells that we failed to create the watchdog device because some of the resources were already reserved (-EBUSY). Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c index 13caebd679f5..8c4e0a18460a 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ void __init acpi_watchdog_init(void) pdev = platform_device_register_simple("wdat_wdt", PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE, resources, nresources); if (IS_ERR(pdev)) - pr_err("Failed to create platform device\n"); + pr_err("Device creation failed: %ld\n", PTR_ERR(pdev)); kfree(resources);