Re: [PATCH] i2c: fix bit algorithm timeout for low values.

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Dave,

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:09:13 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
> 
> When fetching DDC using i2c algo bit, we were often seeing timeouts
> before getting valid EDID on a retry. The VESA spec states 2ms is the
> DDC timeout, so when this translates into 1 jiffie and we are close
> to the end of the time period, it could return with a timeout less than
> 2ms.
> 
> Change this code to use time_after instead of time_after_eq.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c
> index d420cc5..e25e139 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static int sclhi(struct i2c_algo_bit_data *adap)
>  		 * chips may hold it low ("clock stretching") while they
>  		 * are processing data internally.
>  		 */
> -		if (time_after_eq(jiffies, start + adap->timeout))
> +		if (time_after(jiffies, start + adap->timeout))
>  			return -ETIMEDOUT;
>  		cond_resched();
>  	}

Applied, thanks. I agree this should go in stable.

-- 
Jean Delvare