linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 02/11] i2c: add quirk checks to core

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:25:24 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
	Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 02/11] i2c: add quirk checks to core

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:08:14PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > +static int i2c_quirk_error(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msg, char *err_msg)
> > +{
> > +	dev_err(&adap->dev, "quirk: %s (addr 0x%04x, size %u)\n", err_msg, msg->addr, msg->len);
> > +	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +}
> 
> So, what happens if I open an I2C adapter, find a message which causes
> i2c_quirk_error() to be called, and then spin repeatedly calling that...
> Shouldn't there be some rate limiting to this?

Can be argued. Changed to dev_err_ratelimited(). Thanks!


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