From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 12:50:21 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] i2c: mxs_i2c: Squash endless loop In-Reply-To: <52776267.7020905@denx.de> References: <1383413009-4912-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> <52776267.7020905@denx.de> Message-ID: <201311041250.21642.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Stefano, > Hi Marek, > > On 02/11/2013 18:23, Marek Vasut wrote: > > + if (!timeout) { > > + debug("MXS I2C: Failed receiving data!\n"); > > + return -EINVAL; > > + } > > + > > This is a real error and not a debug information. IMHO it should be > better to print the error unconditionally with puts/printf, reporting > that the timer elapsed. Returning -EINVAL will make the i2c stack trigger an output, so having it duplicated here is pointless I believe. Best regards, Marek Vasut