On 30/11/2017 at 09:16:38 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:56:29PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > > On 29/11/2017 at 12:53:11 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:31:01PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: > > > > The I2C adapter driver is sometimes slow, causing the SCL line to > > > > be stuck low for more than the stipulated SMBUS timeout of 25-35 ms. > > > > This causes the client device to give up which in turn causes silent > > > > corruption of data. So, disable the SMBUS timeout in the client device. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > I assume this will be sent upstream through an arm tree. > > > > > > > Yes, I'm applying it right now. > > > Are you going to apply the patch for 4.15, or queue it up for 4.16 ? > I have been arguing with myself if this is a feature or a bug fix. > So far I queued the driver change up for 4.16, but I am open to > applying it to 4.15. Any thoughts ? > I was wondering that myself. I'm open to have it as a fix in 4.15. Or maybe Peter can send the series to stable if he needs it in 4.14. Peter, what do you think/want? -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
