Re: [PATCH] i2c: mediatek: modify threshold passed to i2c_get_dma_safe_msg_buf()
From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Fri Mar 08 2019 - 09:52:08 EST
> > I just checked this issue again and concluded that both are reasonable,
> > the suggestion from me below with the adapter quirk AND your original
> > patch setting the threshold to 1. With my suggestion the core will
> > prevent 0-length messages. But still, we should set the threshold to 1
> > because 0 is a value the HW is not capable of.
> >
> I think quirk might be better, since mediatek said they might have some ICs
> that can handle zero-length transfer in the future, so flags might be
> more clear if they want to restore functionality.
But I guess you don't want to do the zero-length transfer with DMA then?
With that in mind, raising the threshold still makes sense to me.
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