On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 07:00:59PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Andreas Werner,
>
> > Using the i2c-eg20t driver and call i2cdetect or probe on the bus,
> > the driver will print a lot of error messages if there was no ACK
> > received.
> >
> > i2cdetect normally print a table with all the available devices. If there
> > is no device on the address, the table will be empty.
> > Currently with the i2c-eg20t driver, the table is not visible because
> > the error messages destroy the table.
> >
> > Error message: pch_i2c_getack return -71
> >
> > This patch prevent the driver to print the messages to syslog if debug is
> > not set.
> >
> > Tested on Intel Atom E6xx and Eg20t Chipset.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Werner <wernerandy@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c
> > b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c index 0f37529..b10c651 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-eg20t.c
> > @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static s32 pch_i2c_getack(struct i2c_algo_pch_data
> > *adap) reg_val = ioread32(p + PCH_I2CSR) & PCH_GETACK;
> >
> > if (reg_val != 0) {
> > - pch_err(adap, "return%d\n", -EPROTO);
> > + pch_dbg(adap, "return%d\n", -EPROTO);
> > return -EPROTO;
> > }
>
> I'd just kill the pch_err() line altogether:
But why? I think there a few pch_err message which are interesting to have in syslog,
without building the dbg driver.
>
> if (reg_val)
> return -EPROTO;
>
> That is because if you look at the only caller of this function, which is
> pch_i2c_wait_for_check_xfer(), you will see that at the only place where
> pch_i2c_getack() is called there is already pch_dbg():
>
> 369 if (pch_i2c_getack(adap)) {
> 370 pch_dbg(adap, "Receive NACK for slave address"
> 371 "setting\n");
> 372 return -EIO;
> 373 }
>
> btw. (idea for subsequent patch) this pch_dbg() should be fixed to be a one-
> liner /wrt the text so we can grep for the error messages. Such text arg should
> never be split in multiple lines in kernel.
Ok i will wait a few days for further comments to this patch and then
i will resend the patch with a one liner message.
>
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut
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