[PATCH dev-5.2 0/2] i2c: aspeed: Add H/W timeout support

[Jae Hyun Yoo]

On 9/4/2019 4:50 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 3:55 PM Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jae,
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 20:08, Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> In case of multi-master environment, if a peer master incorrectly handles
>>> a bus in the middle of a transaction, I2C hardware hangs in slave state
>>> and it can't escape from the slave state, so this commit adds slave
>>> inactive timeout support to recover the bus in the case.
>>>
>>> By applying this change, SDA data-low and SCL clock-low timeout feature
>>> also could be enabled which was disabled previously.
>>
>> Please consider sending your RFC patches to the upstream list. You
>> have a big backlog of patches now.
> 
> Joel, thanks for keeping track of this!
> 
> Sorry, for not keeping up with my emails, I don't think I have time to
> continue to maintain this.
> 
> However, I don't want to hand this off in a bad state. I will try to
> get up to date on all the emails in the coming weeks.
> 
> Jae, can you start sending things upstream as Joel suggested?

Sure, I'll start upstreaming after taking some tests on Cedric's QEMU
patch.

Thanks,
Jae