On (04/30/10 11:48), Jean Delvare wrote:
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> Hi Sergey,
> 
> 
> > Both i2c spec and ICH7 datasheet requires to restart transaction in
> > case of lost arbitration.
> > 
> > "No information is lost during the arbitration process. A master that
> > loses the arbitration can generate clock pulses until the end of the
> > byte in which it loses the arbitration and must restart its transaction
> > when the bus is idle."
> >         
> > Please see the following patch. Is it correct?
> 
> No, it's not. As you wrote above, this is not specific to the Intel ICH
> but a general I2C issue. As such it must be handled in i2c-core and not
> by individual drivers. And as a matter of fact, it is already handled.
> Look at functions i2c_transfer and i2c_smbus_xfer in i2c-core.c, see
> the comments "Retry automatically on arbitration loss", the code is
> already there. It's just a matter of bus drivers properly setting
> adapter->retries (which i2c-i801.c does already.)
> 
Thanks.

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> So I don't know which kernel you're using, but with the latest upstream
> kernel, things should work just fine already.
> 

OK. Thanks a lot.


	Sergey