[PATCH v2] i2c: aspeed: Add multi-master use case support

[Wolfram Sang]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:54:44AM -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote:
> In multi-master environment, this driver's master cannot know
> exactly when a peer master sends data to this driver's slave so
> cases can be happened that this master tries sending data through
> the master_xfer function but slave data from a peer master is still
> being processed or slave xfer is started by a peer immediately
> after it queues a master command. To support multi-master use cases
> properly, this H/W provides arbitration in physical level and it
> provides priority based command handling too to avoid conflicts in
> multi-master environment, means that if a master and a slave events
> happen at the same time, H/W will handle a higher priority event
> first and a pending event will be handled when bus comes back to
> the idle state.
> 
> To support this H/W feature properly, this patch adds the 'pending'
> state of master and its handling code so that the pending master
> xfer can be continued after slave operation properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo at linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins at google.com>

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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