Re: [PATCH v5] hwmon: (pmbus/max31785) Add delay between bus accesses

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:43:46PM -0500, Lakshmi Yadlapati wrote:
> The MAX31785 has shown erratic behaviour across multiple system
> designs, unexpectedly clock stretching and NAKing transactions.
> 
> Experimentation shows that this seems to be triggered by a register access
> directly back to back with a previous register write. Experimentation also
> shows that inserting a small delay after register writes makes the issue go
> away.
> 
> Use a similar solution to what the max15301 driver does to solve the same
> problem. Create a custom set of bus read and write functions that make sure
> that the delay is added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Yadlapati <lakshmiy@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ ... ]
> +	if (delta < MAX31785_WAIT_DELAY_US)
> +		usleep_range(MAX31785_WAIT_DELAY_US - delta,
> +			     MAX31785_WAIT_DELAY_US);

This means the driver will now wait up to 250 uS even if it only
has to wait for 1 uS. But I really don't want to wait or argue further,
so I just applied the patch as-is.

Guenter