linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/18] i2c: rk3x: remove printout on handled timeouts

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Message-ID: <af8ac48f10a1636ab2486aef91e01c3f@manjaro.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:44:41 +0200
From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>
To: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>
Cc: linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, Andi Shyti
 <andi.shyti@...nel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] i2c: rk3x: remove printout on handled timeouts

On 2024-04-13 08:38, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> Maybe it would be good to turn it into a debug message, instead of
>> simply removing it?  Maybe not all client drivers handle it correctly,
>> in which case having an easy way for debugging would be beneficial.
> 
> Hmm, but it still returns -ETIMEDOUT to distinguish cases?

Sure, but I think that having such an additional debug facility
can only help and save the people from adding temporary printk()s
while debugging.