[PATCH 13/18] i2c: rk3x: remove printout on handled timeouts

Dragan Simic dsimic at manjaro.org
Sat Apr 13 01:07:36 PDT 2024


Hello Wolfram,

On 2024-04-13 09:10, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hi Dragan,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Mileages, I guess. I like temporary printouts for temporary debug
> sessions. This way the upstream source code stays slim. In my 
> experience
> with I2C over the years, debugging happens with developers anyhow.
> Logfiles from users which help developers create patches are very rare.
> And those users are usually capable enough to add debug patches.
> Given these experiences (which may be different in other subsystems), I
> don't see why we should carry the bloat.

Yup, adding some printk()s while debugging is pretty much inevitable,
and having full debugging available would add a lot of code, regardless
of the subsystem.

> That said, I'll leave the final decision to the driver maintainers.

Agreed.



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