From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Babic Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:03:22 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] i2c: mxs_i2c: Squash endless loop In-Reply-To: <201311041250.21642.marex@denx.de> References: <1383413009-4912-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> <52776267.7020905@denx.de> <201311041250.21642.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <52778D0A.5010401@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 Marek, On 04/11/2013 12:50, Marek Vasut wrote: > 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. Agree on that. But then, should we not return -ETIMEDOUT (-110) ? We should print the error code in the i2c stack (do_i2c_read) instead of checking only if the return value is not null, as we do now. Best regards, Stefano Babic -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sbabic at denx.de =====================================================================