[U-Boot] [PATCH] i2c: mxs_i2c: Squash endless loop

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Mon Nov 4 13:03:22 CET 2013


Hi Marek,

On 04/11/2013 12:50, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
>> Hi Marek,
>>
>> On 02/11/2013 18:23, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> +			if (!timeout) {
>>> +				debug("MXS I2C: Failed receiving data!\n");
>>> +				return -EINVAL;
>>> +			}
>>> +
>>
>> This is a real error and not a debug information. IMHO it should be
>> better to print the error unconditionally with puts/printf, reporting
>> that the timer elapsed.
> 
> Returning -EINVAL will make the i2c stack trigger an output, so having it 
> duplicated here is pointless I believe.

Agree on that. But then, should we not return -ETIMEDOUT (-110) ? We
should print the error code in the i2c stack (do_i2c_read) instead of
checking only if the return value is not null, as we do now.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic


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