[PATCH 1/4] i2c/gpio-i2c add: add DT support

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Tue Feb 7 06:25:47 EST 2012


On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 03:56:24AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 16:09 Mon 06 Feb     , Mark Brown wrote:

> > > +	- udelay: half clock cycle time in us (may depend on each platform)

> > > +	udelay = <2>;		/* ~100 kHz */

> > Why not specify this in kHz and do the conversion in the driver?  It
> > seems a more intuitive thing to be specifying.  I appreciate that the
> > platform data used udelay but it seems an entirely unintuitive thing
> > from a user point of view even if it's what the implementation wants.

> because it's not accurate and on some platform you need to adapt it so we keep
> the udelay

Then you should clarify that in the documentation, it's not the cycle
time but the delay between GPIO operations which isn't quite the same
thing.
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