[PATCH-v3 02/11] i2c: pxa: No need to set slave addr for i2c master mode reset

Vaibhav Hiremath vaibhav.hiremath at linaro.org
Fri Jul 10 07:25:31 PDT 2015



On Friday 10 July 2015 07:44 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 06:08:43PM +0530, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Friday 10 July 2015 01:41 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 12:54:46AM +0530, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote:
>>>> Normally i2c controller works as master, so slave addr is not needed, or it
>>>> will impact some slave device (eg. ST NFC chip) i2c accesses, because it has
>>>> the same i2c address with controller.
>>>
>>> Just to make sure: Does it? As I read the code, slave interrupts are
>>> enabled later only when slave mode is selected? Is that a HW bug? And if
>>> so, can't the code just be moved into this #ifdef block later?
>>>
>>
>> Yes we could, infact I thought about it;
>> but I would break recommended sequence here.
>
> And did you set the "own slave address" to a value which one of your
> existing i2c slaves also has (without enabling slave mode)? Did it
> disturb communication?
>

Since slave and master mode are mutual exclusive,
I did not try this.

But I can try.

Thanks,
Vaibhav



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