Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: dts: at91: disable the nxp,se97b SMBUS timeout on the TSE-850

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Nov 30 2017 - 12:16:47 EST


On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:56:29PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 29/11/2017 at 12:53:11 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:31:01PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote:
> > > The I2C adapter driver is sometimes slow, causing the SCL line to
> > > be stuck low for more than the stipulated SMBUS timeout of 25-35 ms.
> > > This causes the client device to give up which in turn causes silent
> > > corruption of data. So, disable the SMBUS timeout in the client device.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I assume this will be sent upstream through an arm tree.
> >
>
> Yes, I'm applying it right now.
>
Are you going to apply the patch for 4.15, or queue it up for 4.16 ?
I have been arguing with myself if this is a feature or a bug fix.
So far I queued the driver change up for 4.16, but I am open to
applying it to 4.15. Any thoughts ?

Guenter

> > Thanks,
> > Guenter
> >
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-tse850-3.dts | 1 +
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-tse850-3.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-tse850-3.dts
> > > index 5f29010cdbd8..9b82cc8843e1 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-tse850-3.dts
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/at91-tse850-3.dts
> > > @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@
> > > jc42@18 {
> > > compatible = "nxp,se97b", "jedec,jc-42.4-temp";
> > > reg = <0x18>;
> > > + smbus-timeout-disable;
> > > };
> > >
> > > dpot: mcp4651-104@28 {
> > > --
> > > 2.11.0
> > >
>
> --
> Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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