Re: [PATCH v1] i2c: tegra: Make timeout error more informative

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Tue Mar 10 2020 - 09:26:51 EST


10.03.2020 14:37, Wolfram Sang ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 08:35:12PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> The I2C timeout error message doesn't tell us what exactly failed and some
>> I2C client drivers do not clarify the error either. Adding WARN_ON_ONCE()
>> results in a stacktrace being dumped into KMSG, which is very useful for
>> debugging purposes.
>
> This is good for debugging, in deed, yet not good in the generic case.
> Timeouts are not an exception on the I2C bus (think of an EEPROM which
> is busy during an erase cycle), so it shouldn't be printed at all.
>
> This prinout should rather be dropped or at least be dev_dbg.

Oh, well. I'll keep this debugging applied locally then, it's quite
unfortunate when something fails silently :)