[PATCH 2/3] i2c/pxa: only define 'blue_murder'-function if DEBUG is #defined
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Feb 28 10:55:02 EST 2010
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:01:45PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
>
> This talkative function is also called on timeouts. As timeouts can
> happen on regular writes to EEPROMs (no error case), this creates false
> positives. Giving lots of details is interesting only for developers
> anyhow, so just use the function if DEBUG is #defined.
Are you sure this is safe? If you time out the write before it completes,
how do you know if the write was successful?
I don't think this is "no error code" nor "false positive". If the timeout
is too short for your EEPROMs, then the timeout needs to be increased.
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