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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Jorge Ramirez <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interface to trigger a bus recovery sequence
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:14:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161218231401.GA1442@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d29f4a6-50ae-2400-4a4d-79ba7ed48a53@linaro.org>

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> I was looking into the i2c bus recovery sequence and I was wondering why
> there doesn't seem to be an interface (ioctl/sysfs) that allows a user to
> trigger a recovery sequence.

I can't think of a reason why this should be possible. The I2C bus
driver should figure out when things go wrong and do the apropriate
actions. Also, the I2C specs have a clear definition when to use bus
recovery.


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      reply	other threads:[~2016-12-18 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-18 17:56 interface to trigger a bus recovery sequence Jorge Ramirez
2016-12-18 23:14 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]

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