Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/7] mfd: cros_ec: Delay for 50ms when we see EC_CMD_REBOOT_EC

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> From: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> 
> If someone sends a EC_CMD_REBOOT_EC to the EC, the EC will likely be
> unresponsive for quite a while.  Add a delay to the end of the command
> to prevent random failures of future commands.
> 
> NOTES:
> * This could be optimized a bit by simply delaying the next command
>   sent, but EC_CMD_REBOOT_EC is such a rare command that the extra
>   complexity doesn't seem worth it.
> * This is a bit of an "ugly hack" since the SPI driver is effectively
>   snooping on the communication and making a lot of assumptions.  It
>   would be nice to architect in some better solution long term.

Are you planning on doing that?

> * This same logic probably needs to be applied to the i2c driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Randall Spangler <rspangler@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

I'm willing to accept this as a stand-in.

Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

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