linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: tegra: Check for overflow errors with BUG

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Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:34:40 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@...omium.org>,
	Rhyland Klein <rklein@...dia.com>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Rakesh Iyer <riyer@...dia.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: tegra: Check for overflow errors with BUG_ON.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:32:16PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> This change doesn't fix any known problems but turns
> on the overflow detection feature of the i2c controller
> in the hopes of flushing out any current (or future)
> bugs in the i2c driver.
> 
> Inspired by a change on nvidia's git server:
>   http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=266d1b7397284505e55d06254b497cb32be07b69
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>

> ---
> This takes Felipe Balbi's suggestion of making the overflow
> error non-fatal.

the WARN() was very nice idea, I was thinking of just returning an error
to the client, but the adition of WARN() will make it really bold ;-)

-- 
balbi

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