Re: [PATCH 2/3] i2c: octeon: Add retry logic after receiving STAT_RXADDR_NAK

[Wolfram Sang]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 08:51:18AM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> The controller specification states that when receiving STAT_RXADDR_NAK
> the START should be sent again. Retry several times before finally
> failing with -ENXIO.
> 
> Without this change the IPMI SSIF driver fails executing several commands
> like 'ipmitool fru' on ThunderX.

Huh? Looks wrong to me. I'd say the client driver needs to retry. Only
that one knows if retrying is appropriate or a waste of time.

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