Re: [RFC][PATCH] thunderbolt: icm: Ignore mailbox errors in icm_suspend()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 01:00:12 PM Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:31:00AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > On one of my test machines nhi_mailbox_cmd() called from icm_suspend()
> > times out and returnes an error which then is propagated to the
> > caller and causes the entire system suspend to be aborted which isn't
> > very useful.
> > 
> > Instead of aborting system suspend, print the error into the log
> > and continue.
> 
> I agree, it should not prevent suspend but I wonder why it fails in the
> first place? Can you check what is the return value?

As per the above, the error is a timeout, ie. -ETIMEDOUT.