Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c/designware: Provide optional i2c bus recovery function

[Shubhrajyoti Datta <omaplinuxkernel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2012 12:51 PM, Shubhrajyoti Datta wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Viresh Kumar<viresh.kumar@xxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Vincenzo Frascino<vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Add optional i2c_recover_bus() function to the Synopsys DesignWare I2C
>>> adapter
>>> driver that performs i2c bus recovery after timeout. The scope of this
>>> routine
>>> is to define i2c bus recovery procedure as specified in the i2c protocol
>>> Rev. 03
>>> section 3.16 titled "Bus clear".
>>
>> What do you do in the function ?
>>
>> Could we have it in the driver file itself?
>>
> I think bus recovery mechanism is to send  extra clock on SCL line by
> toggling the pin (using gpio apis)
You mean the SCL I didnt understand the gpio part?

Why is gpio needed?

 and keep watching of sda line whether it
> becomes high or not.
> We can put this algorithms in the some common file (i2c/algos/) and so if
> any i2c bus driver want to use, they can use it.
> Little background: I am working on tegra i2c controller and we have similar
> logic in tegra-i2c driver which we want to upstream.
> If similar function is in common place, we can use this and need not to
> duplicating it on every bus driver.
>
>
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