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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
To: Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	Open Source Submission <patches@amperecomputing.com>,
	Phong Vo <phong@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	"Thang Q . Nguyen" <thang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] i2c: aspeed: Add slave_enable() to toggle slave mode
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 20:22:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YaUoeFZn6zLNoGed@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YRTQP9sX0hkTJMTx@shikoro>

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Hi,

I still wonder if we can't get the SSIF BMC driver upstream...

> @all: Plus, I neither like the API (because it doesn't look generic to
> me but mostly handling one issue needed here) nor do I fully understand
> the use case. Normally, when a read is requested and the backend needs
> time to deliver the data, the hardware should stretch the SCL clock
> until some data register is finally written to. If it doesn't do it for
> whatever reason, this is a quirky hardware in my book and needs handling
> in the driver only. So, what is special with this HW? Can't we solve it
> differently?

... for that, it would be great if somebody could answer my questions
here :)

Happy hacking,

   Wolfram


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-29 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-14  3:38 [PATCH v5 0/3] Add SSIF BMC driver Quan Nguyen
2021-07-14  3:38 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] i2c: aspeed: Add slave_enable() to toggle slave mode Quan Nguyen
2021-08-12  7:39   ` Wolfram Sang
2021-08-12 13:36     ` [Openipmi-developer] " Corey Minyard
2021-11-29 19:22     ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2021-11-30  2:08       ` Quan Nguyen
2021-11-30 10:02         ` Wolfram Sang
2021-07-14  3:38 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] ipmi: ssif_bmc: Add SSIF BMC driver Quan Nguyen
2021-07-14  3:38 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] bindings: ipmi: Add binding for " Quan Nguyen
2021-07-15 17:43   ` Rob Herring
2021-07-16  2:45     ` Quan Nguyen
2021-07-15 23:32 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] Add " Corey Minyard
2021-07-16  2:47   ` Quan Nguyen

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