[PATCH] i2c: cadence: Handling Slave monitor mode

Wolfram Sang wsa at the-dreams.de
Sat Apr 4 08:34:47 PDT 2015


> > So, it is kind of flooding the bus until the timeout? That is not a single zero
> > byte message.
> >
> It will not flooding the bus until the timeout. Once it fails to access the bus it will be ideal for 15 clock cycles. Master again retrying to access the
> Slave immediately after the 15 clock cycles (There is a register in the controller to set the retry value min: 0 cycles, max: 16 cycles).This process will repeat until
> The software timeout will happen (1000msec).

Compared to do one access only this is "kind of flooding", no?

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