Re: [PATCH] i2c: mediatek: modify threshold passed to i2c_get_dma_safe_msg_buf()

Hsin-Yi Wang
2019-03-08T16:22:50Z

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:52 PM Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> wrote:
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> > > I just checked this issue again and concluded that both are reasonable,
> > > the suggestion from me below with the adapter quirk AND your original
> > > patch setting the threshold to 1. With my suggestion the core will
> > > prevent 0-length messages. But still, we should set the threshold to 1
> > > because 0 is a value the HW is not capable of.
> > >
> > I think quirk might be better, since mediatek said they might have some ICs
> > that can handle zero-length transfer in the future, so flags might be
> > more clear if they want to restore functionality.
>
> But I guess you don't want to do the zero-length transfer with DMA then?
> With that in mind, raising the threshold still makes sense to me.
>
Yes. Then I think this patch is okay for merge?

And since the mt8183 patches are still under reviewing, we'll upload adapter
quirk patch after those are merged.

Thanks