Re: [PATCH] i2c: designware: deduce speed mode from device tree setting

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Aug 20 2014 - 08:42:45 EST


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 01:36:18PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > +
> > > + ret = of_property_read_u32(pdev->dev.of_node,
> > > + "clock-frequency", &bus_rate);
> > > + if (!ret && (bus_rate <= 100000))
> > > + speed = DW_IC_CON_SPEED_STD;
> >
> > This looks a bit odd.
> >
> > If the device only supports two particular speeds why do we accept any
> > other speed in the clock-frequency property?
>
> "clock-frequency" is the default binding for specifying i2c bus speeds
> today. Some controllers can be programmed to do various speeds, some can
> only do a set of fixed values.

Sure. My complaint was that the driver would accept invalid values.
That wasn't meant to be suggestion to use a property other than the
standard clock-freqeuncy.

> > Surely we should at least warn that something was off?
>
> Yes, I was going to say the same until Romain's old patch showed up
> which does that.

Cool. Sounds like we can use Romain's patch to handle this then.

Cheers,
Mark.
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