Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] i2c: aspeed: added driver for Aspeed I2C

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 05:01:00 EST



> > If SCL is stuck low, how do you want to send a STOP?
> >
>
> Fair point. I should probably drop that in the future and just do a
> reset, and even then, doing a
> reset is probably just wishful thinking. If a slave is holding down
> SCL, we are pretty screwed.

Yes, you'd need to reset the client device. And that has to be done in
the client driver. I wonder if i2c_transfer and friends should return a
specific error value in that case... need to think about it.

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