device: add dev_WARN_ONCE

it's quite useful to print the device name
on the stack dump caused by WARN(), but
there are other cases where we might want
to use WARN_ONCE.

Introduce a helper similar to dev_WARN() for
that case too.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index ab8dfc095709..d4840511e877 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -742,13 +742,17 @@ do {						     \
 #endif
 
 /*
- * dev_WARN() acts like dev_printk(), but with the key difference
+ * dev_WARN*() acts like dev_printk(), but with the key difference
  * of using a WARN/WARN_ON to get the message out, including the
  * file/line information and a backtrace.
  */
 #define dev_WARN(dev, format, arg...) \
         WARN(1, "Device: %s\n" format, dev_driver_string(dev), ## arg);
 
+#define dev_WARN_ONCE(dev, condition, format, arg...) \
+        WARN_ONCE(condition, "Device %s\n" format, \
+                        dev_driver_string(dev), ## arg)
+
 /* Create alias, so I can be autoloaded. */
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(major,minor) \
         MODULE_ALIAS("char-major-" __stringify(major) "-" __stringify(minor))