Re: [PATCH 3/3] i2c:ocores: add polling interface

From: Peter Korsgaard
Date: Mon Oct 29 2018 - 09:04:21 EST


>>>>> "Federico" == Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxx> writes:

Hi,

>> >> Where does this 10 come from?
>> >
>> > It's true, it's just a random number. It can be zero as well, and we ask
>> > the system to just sleep for that amount of time.
>> >
>> > (1) usleep_range(sleep_min, sleep_min);
>>
>> Or just usleep(sleep_min);

> This does not exist as far as I know; the alternative is an active wait with
> udelay. But then, it is not that different from just start polling TIP or BUSY
> flags.

Ahh yes.

> I think that something like this could be better

> (2) usleep_range(sleep_min, sleep_min * XXX);

> But.
> Since it is better to make this patch ready for xfer_irqless, then I will
> definitively go for udelay(). The reason is that, xfer_irqless may run in
> atomic context where we can't sleep at all.

Great! BTW I noticed that your sleep_min calculation looked odd:

int sleep_min = (8/i2c->bus_clock_khz) * 1000; /* us for 8bits

bus_clock_khz almost certainly will be bigger than 8 (E.G. likely
100KHz), so the above set sleep_min to 0. Please move the * 1000 before
the division.

--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard