[PATCH 3/4] devicetree: bindings: Add defeature-repeated-start property for Cadence I2C

Harini Katakam harinik at xilinx.com
Tue Dec 2 02:05:48 PST 2014


From: Vishnu Motghare <vishnum at xilinx.com>

This patch adds "defeature-repeated-start" property in i2c-cadence.txt.

Signed-off-by: Vishnu Motghare <vishnum at xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Harini Katakam <harinik at xilinx.com>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt        |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt
index 7cb0b56..9d417a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,17 @@ Required properties:
 Optional properties:
   - clock-frequency: Desired operating frequency, in Hz, of the bus.
   - clock-names: Input clock name, should be 'pclk'.
+  - defeature-repeated-start: Include this property to defeature repeated start
+			      This defeature is due to a few bugs in the
+			      I2C controller.
+			      Completion interrupt after a read/receive
+			      operation is NOT obtained if HOLD bit is set
+			      at that time. Because of this bug, repeated start
+			      will only work if there are no transfers following
+			      a read/receive transfer.
+			      If HOLD is held for long without a transfer,
+			      invalid read transactions are generated by the
+			      controller due to a HW timeout related bug.
 
 Example:
 	i2c at e0004000 {
-- 
1.7.9.5




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