Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: designware: fix race between subsequent xfers

[Mika Westerberg]

Hi Christian,

On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:43:35PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> The designware block is not always properly disabled in the case of
> transfer errors. Interrupts from aborted transfers might be handled
> after the data structures for the following transfer are initialised but
> before the hardware is set up. This might corrupt the data structures to
> the point that the system is stuck in an infinite interrupt loop (where
> FIFOs are never emptied).
> This patch cleanly disables the designware-i2c hardware at the end of
> every transfer, successful or not.

Have you tried with the latest mainline driver? There is a commit that
solves similar problem:

2a2d95e9d6d29e7	i2c: designware: always clear interrupts before enabling them

Maybe it helps?
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