[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] soft_i2c/i2c_probe(): Perform reads instead of writes

Tolunay Orkun listmember at orkun.us
Tue Jun 14 23:34:38 CEST 2005


Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>>>>>>"Tolunay" == Tolunay Orkun <listmember at orkun.us> writes:
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>Hi, and sorry for the slow response!
>
> Tolunay> Peter, I believe the implementation was correct but the
> Tolunay> comment was wrong. It should be a write transaction with
> Tolunay> just address byte. After the address byte is transmitted the
> Tolunay> I2C slave will acknowledge (if present) and we finish the
> Tolunay> transaction by generating the stop condition. i.e. fake
> Tolunay> write.
>
>Why write? Wouldn't a zero byte read transaction be safer?
>
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>
I have read somewhere (that I cannot find now), that some device would 
lock up on 0-byte read vs 0-byte write. Since the current code is 
working as it is unless there is demonstrable problem with it, I would 
fix the comment only.





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