I2C and SMBus timeouts are not something the user needs to be informed about on controller level. The client driver may know if that really is a problem and give more detailed information to the user. The controller should just pass this information upwards. Turn all timeout related printouts to debug level. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Here, I did not delete the printout to support checking the termination process. The other drivers in this series do not have this SMBus specific termination step. drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c index 4294c0c63cef..a42b5152f9bd 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static int i801_check_post(struct i801_priv *priv, int status) * If the SMBus is still busy, we give up */ if (unlikely(status < 0)) { - dev_err(&priv->pci_dev->dev, "Transaction timeout\n"); + dev_dbg(&priv->pci_dev->dev, "Transaction timeout\n"); /* try to stop the current command */ dev_dbg(&priv->pci_dev->dev, "Terminating the current operation\n"); outb_p(SMBHSTCNT_KILL, SMBHSTCNT(priv)); @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static int i801_check_post(struct i801_priv *priv, int status) status = inb_p(SMBHSTSTS(priv)); if ((status & SMBHSTSTS_HOST_BUSY) || !(status & SMBHSTSTS_FAILED)) - dev_err(&priv->pci_dev->dev, + dev_dbg(&priv->pci_dev->dev, "Failed terminating the transaction\n"); return -ETIMEDOUT; } -- 2.43.0