[PATCH] i2c: bcm2835: Set up the clock stretching timeout at boot.

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Sun Jul 3 18:02:32 PDT 2016


Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> writes:

>> +	/*
>> +	 * SMBUS says "Devices participating in a transfer will
>> +	 * timeout when any clock low exceeds the value of
>> +	 * T_TIMEOUT,MIN of 25 ms."
>> +	 */
>
> SMBus has that timeout, but I2C doesn't. How about disabling the timeout
> simply? Or using the max value if you want to keep the timeout
> detection?

Disabling the timeout seems fine to me.  We still have a 1-second
timeout around the entire transfer.  I'll be back on my DSI branch this
week and test it out then.
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