Jean, On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:39:54, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Nageswari, > > [...] > No, as the comment says there is no good reason, it's purely arbitrary. > If this limitation is a problem for you it can be raised. > > But you should also keep in mind that pushing many messages at once > increases the I2C bus latency so other devices on the same bus might > become unresponsive. > > As a matter of fact the limitation has been there for over 10 years and > nobody ever complained about it, so you must be doing something quite > unusual. I invite you to explain your case in details if you need > I2C_RDRW_IOCTL_MAX_MSGS to be increased. > > -- We have a slave device which requires more than 500 registers to be configured. (kind of bulk write) So, looking for an option of configuring all of them in single command. > Jean Delvare > Nageswari -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
