Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] i2c: iproc: Support larger TX transfer

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 16:44:44 EST


On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 01:10:43PM -0800, Ray Jui wrote:
> From: Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The current iProc I2C driver only allows each TX transfer up to 63
> bytes (the TX FIFO has a size of 64 bytes, and one byte is reserved
> for slave address). This patch enhances the driver to support TX
> transfer in each I2C message for up to 65535 bytes (a practical
> maximum, since member 'max_write_len' of 'struct i2c_adapter_quirks is
> of type 'u16')
>
> This works by loading up the I2C TX FIFO and enabling the TX underrun
> interrupt for each burst. After each burst of TX data is finished,
> i.e., when the TX FIFO becomes empty, the TX underrun interrupt will be
> triggered and another burst of TX data can be loaded into the TX FIFO.
> This repeats until all TX data are finished
>
> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Icarus Chau <ichau@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <sbranden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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