Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] mfd: cros_ec: spi: Increase cros_ec_spi deadline from 5ms to 100ms

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On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Doug Anderson wrote:

> We're adding i2c tunneling to the list of things that goes over
> cros_ec.  i2c tunneling can be slooooooow, so increase our deadline to
> 100ms to account for that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c b/drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c
> index 4f863c3..0b8d328 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c
> @@ -39,14 +39,22 @@
>  #define EC_MSG_PREAMBLE_COUNT		32
>  
>  /*
> -  * We must get a response from the EC in 5ms. This is a very long
> -  * time, but the flash write command can take 2-3ms. The EC command
> -  * processing is currently not very fast (about 500us). We could
> -  * look at speeding this up and making the flash write command a
> -  * 'slow' command, requiring a GET_STATUS wait loop, like flash
> -  * erase.
> -  */
> -#define EC_MSG_DEADLINE_MS		5
> + * Allow for a long time for the EC to respond.  We support i2c
> + * tunneling and support fairly long messages for the tunnel (249
> + * bytes long at the moment).  If we're talking to a 100 kHz device
> + * on the other end and need to transfer ~256 bytes, then we need:
> + *  10 us/bit * ~10 bits/byte * ~256 bytes = ~25ms
> + *
> + * We'll wait 4 times that to handle clock stretching and other
> + * paranoia.
> + *
> + * It's pretty unlikely that we'll really see a 249 byte tunnel in
> + * anything other than testing.  If this was more common we might
> + * consider having slow commands like this require a GET_STATUS
> + * wait loop.  The 'flash write' command would be another candidate
> + * for this, clocking in at 2-3ms.
> + */
> +#define EC_MSG_DEADLINE_MS		100
>  
>  /*
>    * Time between raising the SPI chip select (for the end of a

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