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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC 02/11] i2c: add quirk checks to core
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> +static int i2c_quirk_error(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msg, char *err_msg)
> +{
> +	dev_err(&adap->dev, "quirk: %s (addr 0x%04x, size %u)\n", err_msg, msg->addr, msg->len);
> +	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +}

So, what happens if I open an I2C adapter, find a message which causes
i2c_quirk_error() to be called, and then spin repeatedly calling that...
Shouldn't there be some rate limiting to this?

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