Hi Wolfram, On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 01:24:20PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > 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"); why after 5 patches of removing dev_err's, here you are changing them to dev_dbg? It's still good, but if we want to be strict, errors should print errors: as we are returning -ETIMEDOUT, then we are treating the case as an error and we should print error. Upwards, then, we can put some more logic and decide whether -ETIMEDOUT is a real error or not and consequently print a debug or an error message. As you did before, I would just remove the printout here. I will wait a bit for more comments and take patches 1 to 5 so that I can unburden you a little from them. Thanks, Andi > /* 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 >