Re: [PATCH] i2c: xiic: Make the start and the byte count write atomic

From: Michal Simek
Date: Fri Sep 07 2018 - 02:03:30 EST


On 6.9.2018 20:52, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 03:11:11PM +0530, shubhrajyoti.datta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti.datta@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Disable interrupts while configuring the transfer and enable them back.
>>
>> We have below as the programming sequence
>> 1. start and slave address
>> 2. byte count and stop
>>
>> In some customer platform there was a lot of interrupts between 1 and 2
>> and after slave address (around 7 clock cyles) if 2 is not executed
>> then the transaction is nacked.
>>
>> To fix this case make the 2 writes atomic.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti.datta@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Added a newline for better readability, added the stable tag and applied
> to for-current, thanks!
>
> BTW we have no maintainer for this driver. Would you or Michal be
> interested in doing that? I don't maintain the whole driver directory
> anymore.

Normally we do handle it via Zynq fragment to have single point of
contact. I have sent a patch for that. Please take it via i2c tree.

Thanks,
Michal