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. Remove the printout. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-uniphier.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-uniphier.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-uniphier.c index 854ac25b5862..e1b4c80e0285 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-uniphier.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-uniphier.c @@ -71,10 +71,8 @@ static int uniphier_i2c_xfer_byte(struct i2c_adapter *adap, u32 txdata, writel(txdata, priv->membase + UNIPHIER_I2C_DTRM); time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&priv->comp, adap->timeout); - if (unlikely(!time_left)) { - dev_err(&adap->dev, "transaction timeout\n"); + if (unlikely(!time_left)) return -ETIMEDOUT; - } rxdata = readl(priv->membase + UNIPHIER_I2C_DREC); if (rxdatap) -- 2.43.0