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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars-Qo5EllUWu/uELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa-z923LK4zBo2bacvFa/9K2g@public.gmane.org>,
	Harini Katakam
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] devicetree: bindings: Add defeature-repeated-start property for Cadence I2C
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:12:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <547DD6F0.6060006@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141202141548.GA5883@katana>

On 12/02/2014 03:15 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>> What do you do when disable repeated start? Sending STOP and START? If
>>> so, this is really something different than repeated start. By using
>>> I2C_FUNC_I2C a user expects repeated start, so if the HW does not
>>> support it, we should say so and don't try to emulate it with something
>>> different.
>>
>> Yes, we send stop.
>
> As said before, this is wrong. Another master could interfere between
> the messages when using stop+start. This is no replacement for repeated
> start.

More importantly a lot of I2C slaves also reset their internal state machine 
on a stop. So e.g. if reading a register is implemented by doing 
start,write,repeated start,read,stop and you replace that with 
start,write,stop,start,read,stop you'll always read register zero instead of 
the register you wanted to read.

- Lars

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-02 10:05 [PATCH 0/4] Cadence I2C driver fixes Harini Katakam
2014-12-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] i2c: cadence: Handle > 252 byte transfers Harini Katakam
     [not found] ` <1417514749-24319-1-git-send-email-harinik-gjFFaj9aHVfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-02 10:05   ` [PATCH 2/4] i2c: cadence: Set the hardware time-out register to maximum value Harini Katakam
2014-12-03 11:28     ` Wolfram Sang
2014-12-02 10:05   ` [PATCH 3/4] devicetree: bindings: Add defeature-repeated-start property for Cadence I2C Harini Katakam
2014-12-02 11:19     ` Mark Rutland
2014-12-02 12:13       ` Harini Katakam
     [not found]         ` <CAFcVECLtPx6shBXJbg9Uf_8fnhkMoO1zpoxGcdda7PSA7z_2rA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-02 12:52           ` Wolfram Sang
2014-12-02 13:10             ` Harini Katakam
     [not found]               ` <CAFcVECJwFoFd6GrmF282CG+fELnYb=FNCTDq=RYKky_dHha=Jg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-02 13:16                 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-12-02 13:30                   ` Harini Katakam
2014-12-02 14:15                     ` Wolfram Sang
2014-12-02 15:12                       ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2014-12-02 10:05   ` [PATCH 4/4] i2c: cadence: Defeature repeated start based on devicetree property Harini Katakam
     [not found]     ` <1417514749-24319-5-git-send-email-harinik-gjFFaj9aHVfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-02 11:21       ` Mark Rutland

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