Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] i2c: mpc: Fix timeout calculations

From: Chris Packham

Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 17:27:17 EST


Hi Andy,

On 19/06/2026 02:49, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> ON the first glance the harmless cleanup of the driver does nothing bad.
> However, as the operator precedence list states the '*' (multiplication)
> and '/' division operators have order 5 with left-to-right associativity
> the *= has order 17 and associativity right-to-left. It wouldn't not be
> a problem to replace
>
> foo = foo * HZ / 1000000;
>
> with
>
> foo *= HZ / 1000000;
>
> if HZ constant is in Hertz. The problem is that in the Linux kernel HZ is
> defined in jiffy units, which is order of magnitude smaller than a million.
> That's why operator precedence has a crucial role here. Fix the regression
> by reverting pre-optimized calculations.
>
> Fixes: be40a3ae719f ("i2c: mpc: Use of_property_read_u32 instead of of_get_property")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> ---
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
> index 28c5c5c1fb7a..a21fa45bd64c 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
> @@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ static int fsl_i2c_probe(struct platform_device *op)
> "fsl,timeout", &mpc_ops.timeout);
>
> if (!result) {
> - mpc_ops.timeout *= HZ / 1000000;
> + mpc_ops.timeout = mpc_ops.timeout * HZ / 1000000;
> if (mpc_ops.timeout < 5)
> mpc_ops.timeout = 5;
> } else {