Re: [PATCH 4/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use WAIT cycle, not STOP

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:16:45AM +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > - atm the debug output is too noisy. I think we can leave the fallback to
> >  gpio bitbanging at info (or maybe error) level, but all the other
> >  messages should be tuned down to DRM_DEBUG_KMS - these can easily be hit
> >  when userspace tries to probe the i2c with nothing connected or if the
> >  driver code tries to do the same. See:
> >  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48248
> 
> OK...  we can change the logging level.
> However, the log in the bug to which you link seems to indicate a more
> serious issue in this case.  It says to me that something on his
> system is trying to talk to the disabled dpc i2c port 5 times every 10
> seconds.  Each time it fails due with a time out, and each timeout
> takes 50ms.  I would argue that the INFO message here is pointing out
> that the hotplug code might want to check the corresponding
> PORT_ENABLED bit before attempting a read over a particular DP/HDMI
> gmbus port.  Perhaps I am mistaken, but if there was really nothing on
> the bus, shouldn't that be a NAK, not a timeout?

The issue is that there's no hotplug, so we run a polling loop which
checks every 10s whether anything is connected. Part of that is trying to
read an edid. I dunno exactly why we don't get a NAK but a timeout.
-Daniel
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