[PATCH v2] i2c: spacemit: fix detect issue

[Andi Shyti]

Hi Troy,

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 09:21:50PM +0800, Troy Mitchell wrote:
> This commit addresses two issues causing i2c detect to fail.
> 
> The identified issues are:
> 
> 1. Incorrect error handling for BED (Bus Error No ACK/NAK):
>    Before this commit, Both ALD (Arbitration Loss Detected) and
>    BED returned -EAGAIN.
> 2. Missing interrupt status clear after initialization in xfer():
>    On the K1 SoC, simply fixing the first issue changed the error
>    from -EAGAIN to -ETIMEOUT. Through tracing, it was determined that
>    this is likely due to MSD (Master Stop Detected) latency issues.
> 
>    That means the MSD bit in the ISR may still be set on the next transfer.
>    As a result, the controller won't work — we can see from the scope that
>    it doesn't issue any signal.
>    (This only occurs during rapid consecutive I2C transfers.
>    That explains why the issue only shows up with i2cdetect.)
> 
> With these two fixes, i2c device detection now functions correctly on the K1 SoC.
> 
> Fixes: 5ea558473fa31 ("i2c: spacemit: add support for SpacemiT K1 SoC")
> Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
> Signed-off-by: Troy Mitchell <troy.mitchell at linux.spacemit.com>

merged to i2c/i2c-host.

Thanks,
Andi