Re: [PATCH v10] i2c-designware: make SDA hold time configurable

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Jul 03 2013 - 10:42:54 EST


On Wednesday 03 July 2013, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:20:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 July 2013, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:43:11PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 26 June 2013, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:55:06AM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> > > > > > This patch makes the SDA hold time configurable through device tree.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > Applied to for-next, thanks for keeping at it and providing lots of
> > > > > useful information. Much appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, but I got a regression that I didn't find reported elsewhere
> > > > so far, even though it breaks a lot of the ARM defconfig builds:
> > > >
> > > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `dw_i2c_probe':
> > > > /git/arm-soc/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-platdrv.c:125: undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
> > > >
> > > > I suspect you want something like the change below.
> > >
> > > This looks similar to a patch Vincent Stehle submitted yesterday, see
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/2/145
> >
> > Thanks for the link. Actually his patch looks wrong to me, because
> >
> > dev->sda_hold_time = div_u64((u64)ic_clk * ht + 500000, 1000000);
> >
> > assigns the division remainder to sda_hold_time, not the quotient.
>
> Hrmmm... At least when I tested it this morning on an ARC architecture
> it worked as intended and returned the quotient. Does that mean we have
> an issue with this function on ARC? Can anyone who knows these functions
> better than I comment?

ARC just uses the generic version of div_u64, which is defined in lib/div64.c.

I suspect that the division remainder just happens to work well enough for
you to not cause any run-time error. You could try adding a printk
in that function to show the values you get on ARC.

Arnd
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