RE: [PATCH] i2c: tegra: Assign unused slave address

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Stephen Warren wrote at Monday, June 06, 2011 11:25 AM:
> On Tegra, we should always use the "new" I2C slave controller, to avoid
> issues with the old controller. This was implemented in commit 65a1a0a
> "i2c: tegra: Enable new slave mode."
> 
> There is currently no driver for the Tegra I2C slave controller upstream.
> Additionally, the controller cannot be completely disabled. Instead, we
> need to:
> 
> a) Set I2C_SL_CNFG_NACK to make the controller automatically NACK any
> incoming transactions.
> 
> b) The controller's definition of NACK isn't identical to the I2C
> protocol's definition. Specifically, it will perform a standard NACK, but
> *also* continue to hold the clock line low in expectation of receiving
> more data. This can hang the bus, or at least cause transaction timeouts,
> if something starts a transaction that matches the controller's slave
> address. Since the default address is 0x00, the general call address,
> this does occur in practice.
> 
> To avoid this, we explicitly program a slave address that is reserved for
> future expansion. For current boards, this guarantees the address will
> never be used. If a future board ever needs to use this address, we can
> add platform data to determine a board-specific safe address. 0xfc is
> picked by this patch.

Ben,

Does this patch look OK? I'd categorize it as a bug-fix. Could it go into
3.0?

Thanks.

> This patch is based on a change previously posted by: Wei Ni <wni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-i2c/msg05437.html
> In turned based on internal changes by: Bharat Nihalani
> <bnihalani@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> A semantically equivalent change has been contained in the various
> ChromeOS kernels for a while.
> 
> I tested this change on top of 3.0-rc2 on Harmony, and interacted with
> the WM8903 I2C-based audio codec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c |    8 +++++++-
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-
> tegra.c
> index 4d93196..fb3b4f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c
> @@ -40,8 +40,10 @@
>  #define I2C_CNFG_NEW_MASTER_FSM			(1<<11)
>  #define I2C_STATUS				0x01C
>  #define I2C_SL_CNFG				0x020
> +#define I2C_SL_CNFG_NACK			(1<<1)
>  #define I2C_SL_CNFG_NEWSL			(1<<2)
>  #define I2C_SL_ADDR1				0x02c
> +#define I2C_SL_ADDR2				0x030
>  #define I2C_TX_FIFO				0x050
>  #define I2C_RX_FIFO				0x054
>  #define I2C_PACKET_TRANSFER_STATUS		0x058
> @@ -337,7 +339,11 @@ static int tegra_i2c_init(struct tegra_i2c_dev
> *i2c_dev)
> 
>  	if (!i2c_dev->is_dvc) {
>  		u32 sl_cfg = i2c_readl(i2c_dev, I2C_SL_CNFG);
> -		i2c_writel(i2c_dev, sl_cfg | I2C_SL_CNFG_NEWSL, I2C_SL_CNFG);
> +		sl_cfg |= I2C_SL_CNFG_NACK | I2C_SL_CNFG_NEWSL;
> +		i2c_writel(i2c_dev, sl_cfg, I2C_SL_CNFG);
> +		i2c_writel(i2c_dev, 0xfc, I2C_SL_ADDR1);
> +		i2c_writel(i2c_dev, 0x00, I2C_SL_ADDR2);
> +
>  	}
> 
>  	val = 7 << I2C_FIFO_CONTROL_TX_TRIG_SHIFT |
> --
> 1.7.0.4

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