Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] hwmon: pmbus: Implement generic bus access delay

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

Patrick,

On 7/17/24 00:29, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> Some drivers, like the max15301 or zl6100, are intentionally delaying
> SMBus communications, to prevent transmission errors. As this is necessary
> on additional PMBus compatible devices, implement a generic delay mechanism
> in the pmbus core.
> 
> Introduces two delay settings in the pmbus_driver_info struct, one applies
> to every SMBus transaction and the other is for write transaction only.
> Once set by the driver the SMBus traffic, using the generic pmbus access
> helpers, is automatically delayed when necessary.
> 
> The two settings are:
> access_delay:
>    - Unit in microseconds
>    - Stores the accessed timestamp after every SMBus access
>    - Delays when necessary before the next SMBus access
> 
> write_delay:
>    - Unit in microseconds
>    - Stores the written timestamp after a write SMBus access
>    - Delays when necessary before the next SMBus access
> 
> This allows to drop the custom delay code from the drivers and easily
> introduce this feature in additional pmbus drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com>
> ---

Sigh (sorry, but this isn't your first patch, and you should know).

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Guenter