Re: [PATCH] i2c: add 'single-master' property to generic bindings

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On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 5:03 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> thanks for the review!
>
> > Could you just have different timeouts for clearing stalled bus. You
> > know quickly if 'single-master' is set, but have to wait longer if not?
>
> Timeouts are a difficult topic with I2C; there is no timeout defined.
> However, if you want to start communictaing and don't have a 'bus idle'
> condition, then the new property makes a difference. With
> "single-master", we know the bus is stalled. With "multi-master" it
> could be another master communicating.
>
> > Note that we need to add a bunch of these properties to dt-schema
> > i2c-controller.yaml. I hadn't done that because I want to dual license
> > in the process, but lots of folks have touched i2c.txt IIRC.
>
> What is your motivation for dual licensing?

Non-GPL OS's use DT.

Rob



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