Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933134AbaLBMNs (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 07:13:48 -0500 Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com ([209.85.217.175]:62626 "EHLO mail-lb0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932257AbaLBMNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2014 07:13:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141202111907.GC23671@leverpostej> References: <1417514749-24319-1-git-send-email-harinik@xilinx.com> <1417514749-24319-4-git-send-email-harinik@xilinx.com> <20141202111907.GC23671@leverpostej> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 17:43:44 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] devicetree: bindings: Add defeature-repeated-start property for Cadence I2C From: Harini Katakam To: Mark Rutland Cc: "wsa@the-dreams.de" , "grant.likely@linaro.org" , "robh+dt@kernel.org" , Pawel Moll , "ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" , "galak@codeaurora.org" , "michal.simek@xilinx.com" , "soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "vishnum@xilinx.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Mark, On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:05:48AM +0000, Harini Katakam wrote: >> From: Vishnu Motghare >> >> This patch adds "defeature-repeated-start" property in i2c-cadence.txt. >> >> Signed-off-by: Vishnu Motghare >> Signed-off-by: Harini Katakam >> --- >> .../devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt | 11 +++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt >> index 7cb0b56..9d417a7 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt >> @@ -11,6 +11,17 @@ Required properties: >> Optional properties: >> - clock-frequency: Desired operating frequency, in Hz, of the bus. >> - clock-names: Input clock name, should be 'pclk'. >> + - defeature-repeated-start: Include this property to defeature repeated start >> + This defeature is due to a few bugs in the >> + I2C controller. >> + Completion interrupt after a read/receive >> + operation is NOT obtained if HOLD bit is set >> + at that time. Because of this bug, repeated start >> + will only work if there are no transfers following >> + a read/receive transfer. >> + If HOLD is held for long without a transfer, >> + invalid read transactions are generated by the >> + controller due to a HW timeout related bug. > > I'm not keen on the name; it sounds like we're disabling a feature > rather than describing the problem (and "defeature" is not a common > term in this sense, "disable" would be better). > > It sounds like there are two issues with staying in the HOLD state? Lost > completion IRQs and a separate HW timeout bug? Or are the two related? > Yes, there are two issues here and they are not related. But a combination of both is leading to not using repeated start. The intention was to defeature except that it works in some scenarios (such as a typical write+read in that order with repeated start) and there are people who already use the driver with slaves that need this. Regards, Harini -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/