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    i2c: s3c2410: Leave the bus disabled unless it is in use · 069a9502
    Simon Glass authored
    
    
    There is a rather odd feature of the exynos i2c controller that if it
    is left enabled, it can lock itself up with the clk line held low.
    This makes the bus unusable.
    
    Unfortunately, the s3c24xx_i2c_set_master() function does not notice
    this, and reports a timeout. From then on the bus cannot be used until
    the AP is rebooted.
    
    The problem happens when any sort of interrupt occurs (e.g. due to a
    bus transition) when we are not in the middle of a transaction. We
    have seen many instances of this when U-Boot leaves the bus apparently
    happy, but Linux cannot access it.
    
    The current code is therefore pretty fragile.
    
    This fixes things by leaving the bus disabled unless we are actually
    in a transaction. We enable the bus at the start of the transaction and
    disable it at the end. That way we won't get interrupts and will not
    lock up the bus.
    
    It might be possible to clear pending interrupts on start-up, but this
    seems to be a more robust solution. We can't service interrupts when
    we are not in a transaction, and anyway would rather not lock up the
    bus while we try.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNaveen Krishna Chatradhi <ch.naveen@samsung.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarKyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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