const struct i2c_device_id *id)
 {
        int err, cnr = 0;
-       const char *slow = NULL;
 
        /* Make sure we can operate on this adapter */
        if (!i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter,
-                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE |
-                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_I2C_BLOCK)) {
-               if (i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter,
-                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE |
-                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_WORD_DATA))
-                       slow = "word";
-               else if (i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter,
-                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE |
-                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE_DATA))
-                       slow = "byte";
-               else
-                       return -EPFNOSUPPORT;
-       }
+                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE | I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_I2C_BLOCK) &&
+           !i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter,
+                                    I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE | I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE_DATA))
+               return -EPFNOSUPPORT;
 
        /* Use 2 dummy devices for page select command */
        mutex_lock(&ee1004_bus_lock);
        dev_info(&client->dev,
                 "%u byte EE1004-compliant SPD EEPROM, read-only\n",
                 EE1004_EEPROM_SIZE);
-       if (slow)
-               dev_notice(&client->dev,
-                          "Falling back to %s reads, performance will suffer\n",
-                          slow);
 
        return 0;