On 7/15/26 6:06 AM, Mukesh Savaliya wrote:
> Hi Aniket, Thanks for addressing previous comments.
> 
> On 7/10/2026 9:40 PM, Aniket Randive wrote:
>> The driver uses a static XFER_TIMEOUT of HZ (1 second) for all transfers
>> regardless of message length or bus frequency, causing unnecessary
>> delays on error paths.
>>
>> Compute the timeout dynamically from message length and bus frequency
>> with a 10x safety margin over the theoretical wire time. Add a 300ms
>> floor to budget for I2C clock stretching, where a slave may hold SCL
>> low indefinitely during internal processing. This detects real hangs
> not only internal processing but it may go bad holding SCL low indefinitely.
>> 3x faster than the old 1s static timeout.
> Meaning, in such case/scenario, don't need to wait till fixes timeout.
> I guess, 3x faster is relative to the 1 sec, but for larger data and slower 
> frequency it may not be 3x. Hence, correct it accordingly.
>>
>> For GPI multi-descriptor transfers, use the maximum message length across
>> all queued messages as the per-completion timeout.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aniket Randive <[email protected]>
>> ---

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>> +/* 300ms floor: budget for clock stretching; slave may hold SCL low 
>> indefinitely */
> Already explained in commit log, can remove second part.

This is very much non-obvious, please keep it 

Konrad

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