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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v1 6/6] i2c: i2c-stm32f7: Implement I2C recovery
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Yes. Recovery mechanism is triggered whenever a busy line is detected.
This busy state can be checked by sw when either SDA or SCL is low: a bit is set
by Hw for this purpose.
On busy state I2C is reconfigured and lines are released the time of recovery.

Regards
On 03/17/2018 09:47 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:53:43AM +0100, Pierre-Yves MORDRET wrote:
>> Feature prevents I2C lock-ups. Mechanism resets I2C state machine
>> and releases SCL/SDA signals but preserves I2C registers.
> 
> Does it release SDA when held down by the slave? Because that is what
> the recovery mechanism is for.
>