Re: [PATCH 00/18] i2c: remove printout on handled timeouts

Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-24T00:08:17Z

Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 01:24:14PM +0200, Wolfram Sang kirjoitti:
> While working on another cleanup series, I stumbled over the fact that
> some drivers print an error on I2C or SMBus related timeouts. This is
> wrong because it may be an expected state. The client driver on top
> knows this, so let's keep error handling on this level and remove the
> prinouts from controller drivers.
>
> Looking forward to comments,

I do not see an equivalent change in I²C core.

IIRC in our case (DW or i801 or iSMT) we often have this message as the only
one that points to the issues (on non-debug level), it will be much harder to
debug for our customers with this going away.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko