[PATCH i2c-host-fixes v5 3/5] i2c: rtl9300: Increase timeout for transfer polling

From: Sven Eckelmann
Date: Sun Aug 10 2025 - 14:07:08 EST


The timeout for transfers was only set to 2ms. Because of this relatively
low limit, 12-byte read operations to the frontend MCU of a RTL8239 POE PSE
chip cluster was consistently resulting in a timeout.

The original OpenWrt downstream driver [1] was not using any timeout limit
at all. This is also possible by setting the timeout_us parameter of
regmap_read_poll_timeout() to 0. But since the driver currently implements
the ETIMEDOUT error, it is more sensible to increase the timeout in such a
way that communication with the (quite common) Realtek I2C-connected POE
management solution is possible.

[1] https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/realtek/files-6.12/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rtl9300.c;h=c4d973195ef39dc56d6207e665d279745525fcac#l202

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: c366be720235 ("i2c: Add driver for the RTL9300 I2C controller")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rtl9300.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rtl9300.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rtl9300.c
index 4a538b2660802c98e1a51d2ed782e154f2a5d1a0..4a282d57e2c1a72c95bdabdd9eb348a73df28c44 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rtl9300.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rtl9300.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static int rtl9300_i2c_execute_xfer(struct rtl9300_i2c *i2c, char read_write,
return ret;

ret = regmap_read_poll_timeout(i2c->regmap, i2c->reg_base + RTL9300_I2C_MST_CTRL1,
- val, !(val & RTL9300_I2C_MST_CTRL1_I2C_TRIG), 100, 2000);
+ val, !(val & RTL9300_I2C_MST_CTRL1_I2C_TRIG), 100, 100000);
if (ret)
return ret;


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