[U-Boot] Odd value for I2C_TIMEOUT in fsl_i2c.c

[Heiko Schocher]

Hello Timur,

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Currently we define I2C_TIMEOUT like this:
> 
> #define I2C_TIMEOUT	(CONFIG_SYS_HZ / 4)
> 
> I'm seeing some I2C instability on a new board I'm working on, especially with SPD.  If I change the above to 
> 
> #define I2C_TIMEOUT	(CONFIG_SYS_HZ / 2)
> 
> The problems go away (or at least, so far appear to).  Can someone tell me why we choose (CONFIG_SYS_HZ / 4) to begin with?  The way we use I2C_TIMEOUT is confusing:
> 
> 	while (readb(&i2c_dev[i2c_bus_num]->sr) & I2C_SR_MBB) {
> 		if ((get_ticks() - timeval) > usec2ticks(I2C_TIMEOUT))
> 			return -1;
> 	}
> 
> CONFIG_HZ is 1000, so I2C_TIMEOUT is equal to 250.  However, the way it's used, 250 isn't the number of ticks per second, it's used as number of microseconds.  If CONFIG_HZ is changed to 100, does that mean that we want to call usec2ticks(25)?

This seems like a Bug to me.

> I think what we should be doing is this:
> 
> #define I2C_TIMEOUT	1000
> 
> Surely, one millisecond is not too long of a timeout?

I think this should be Ok. Can you provide a patch?
Thanks for catching this.

bye
Heiko
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