This error apparently is caused by timed out event, so a -ETIMEDOUT should be used instead of a -EIO, and it also tells user what happened , so this dev_err may not be needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Song Qiang <songqiang1304521@xxxxxxxxx> --- I used ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl to get maintainers about this file, I thought this script searches maintainers with looking up MAINTAINER, is that right? So I searched MAINTAINER and also found nothing related to hmc5843. In the declearation area I can see Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti@xxxxxx> wroted this driver and several other people including Peter Meerwald have contributed. Is this driver now a orphan? Or if it is, I think we may also need to add it to the MAINTAINER file. I'm also familiar with this device, I think I can add interrupt support later. drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_core.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_core.c b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_core.c index ada142fb7aa3..4fb393c3854c 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_core.c +++ b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_core.c @@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ static int hmc5843_wait_measurement(struct hmc5843_data *data) } if (tries < 0) { - dev_err(data->dev, "data not ready\n"); - return -EIO; + return -ETIMEDOUT; } return 0; -- 2.17.1