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From: Ben Dooks <ben-i2c-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] i2c_intel_mid: Improve error reporting
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:44:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110127004422.GI15795@trinity.fluff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110125142040.9472.88734.stgit-Z/y2cZnRghHXmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 02:20:48PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> From: Catalin Popescu <catalinx.popescu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> 
> The error messages printed from mrst_i2c_abort() didn't give slave address info.
> 
> But I2C device driver developers always need this to check which slave device
> has the problem.

Erm, surely the driver itself should know what i2c device it is communicating
with? Secondly, does this swamp the kernel dmesg buffer when run with the
i2c-detect tool?
 
> This patch enhances the error message format by adding slave address info to
> each error message.

Why not use dev_err() on the i2c device's device state?
 
-- 
Ben Dooks, ben-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, http://www.fluff.org/ben/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 14:20 [PATCH 1/3] i2c_intel_mid: Improve error reporting Alan Cox
     [not found] ` <20110125142040.9472.88734.stgit-Z/y2cZnRghHXmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-25 14:21   ` [PATCH 2/3] i2c-intel-mid: improve timeout handling Alan Cox
2011-01-25 14:22   ` [PATCH 3/3] MID I2C runtime PM Alan Cox
2011-01-27  0:44   ` Ben Dooks [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20110127004422.GI15795-SMNkleLxa3Z6Wcw2j4pizdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-27 11:33       ` [PATCH 1/3] i2c_intel_mid: Improve error reporting Alan Cox

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