Re: [PATCH v2] Input: elan_i2c - check if device is there before really probing

From: Fabio Estevam
Date: Tue May 09 2017 - 20:49:55 EST


On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That is the point of the patch - we want to fail silently if the device
> is not actually there and fails even the simplest communication. Driver
> core treats ENXIO and ENODEV as special and does not log errors.

Got it, thanks for the explanation!