Always failing to register I2C buses when the line testing fails is a little harsh. While such a failure is definitely a bug in the driver that exposes the affected I2C bus, things may still work fine if the missing initialization steps are done later, before the I2C bus is used. So it seems a better debugging tool to just report the test failure by default. I introduce bit_test=2 if anyone really misses the original behavior of bit_test=1. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-3.0.orig/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c 2011-07-22 04:17:23.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-3.0/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c 2011-10-02 10:29:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ /* ----- global variables --------------------------------------------- */ static int bit_test; /* see if the line-setting functions work */ -module_param(bit_test, bool, 0); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(bit_test, "Test the lines of the bus to see if it is stuck"); +module_param(bit_test, bool, S_IRUGO); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(bit_test, "lines testing - 0 off; 1 report; 2 fail if stuck"); #ifdef DEBUG static int i2c_debug = 1; @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ static int __i2c_bit_add_bus(struct i2c_ if (bit_test) { ret = test_bus(adap); - if (ret < 0) + if (bit_test >= 2 && ret < 0) return -ENODEV; } -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html