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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: "Benoît Thébaudeau" <benoit@wsystem.com>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:10:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160721111008.GE4446@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469097692-103146-4-git-send-email-benoit@wsystem.com>

On 21/07/2016 at 12:41:30 +0200, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote :
> The I²C NACK issue of the RV-8803 may occur after any I²C START
> condition, depending on the timings. Consequently, the workaround must
> be applied for all the I²C transfers.
> 
> This commit abstracts the I²C transfer code into register access
> functions. This avoids duplicating the I²C workaround everywhere. This
> also avoids the duplication of the code handling the return value of
> i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). Error messages are issued in case of
> definitive register access failures (if the workaround fails). This
> change also makes the I²C transfer return value checks consistent.
> 

Well, my initial idea was that the workaround is actually needed only
for operations that are not restartable from userspace.

Did you it that bug? On which RTC?

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-21 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-21 10:41 [PATCH 1/6] rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 2/6] rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 3/6] rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-21 11:10   ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2016-07-21 12:34     ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-21 18:30     ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 5/6] rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 6/6] rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when " Benoît Thébaudeau
2016-07-28  8:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support Alexandre Belloni

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