This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i2c: xiic: improve error message when transfer fails to start to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: i2c-xiic-improve-error-message-when-transfer-fails-t.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7d12f50c490ff69fb263d0b4fbb29ad87804115a Author: Marc Ferland <marc.ferland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon May 13 12:03:24 2024 -0400 i2c: xiic: improve error message when transfer fails to start [ Upstream commit ee1691d0ae103ba7fd9439800ef454674fadad27 ] xiic_start_xfer can fail for different reasons: - EBUSY: bus is busy or i2c messages still in tx_msg or rx_msg - ETIMEDOUT: timed-out trying to clear the RX fifo - EINVAL: wrong clock settings Both EINVAL and ETIMEDOUT will currently print a specific error message followed by a generic one, for example: Failed to clear rx fifo Error xiic_start_xfer however EBUSY will simply output the generic message: Error xiic_start_xfer which is not really helpful. This commit adds a new error message when a busy condition is detected and also removes the generic message since it does not provide any relevant information to the user. Signed-off-by: Marc Ferland <marc.ferland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: 1d4a1adbed25 ("i2c: xiic: Try re-initialization on bus busy timeout") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c index 695233db07acd..1ecd26e673d47 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c @@ -711,8 +711,11 @@ static int xiic_start_xfer(struct xiic_i2c *i2c, struct i2c_msg *msgs, int num) mutex_lock(&i2c->lock); ret = xiic_busy(i2c); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + dev_err(i2c->adap.dev.parent, + "cannot start a transfer while busy\n"); goto out; + } i2c->tx_msg = msgs; i2c->rx_msg = NULL; @@ -742,10 +745,8 @@ static int xiic_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msgs, int num) return err; err = xiic_start_xfer(i2c, msgs, num); - if (err < 0) { - dev_err(adap->dev.parent, "Error xiic_start_xfer\n"); + if (err < 0) goto out; - } err = wait_for_completion_timeout(&i2c->completion, XIIC_XFER_TIMEOUT); mutex_lock(&i2c->lock);