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In message <[email protected]>, Andriy Gapon 
writes:

>iicbb driver has a hardcoded timeout that defines how long the driver waits for
> SCL line to go high after the driver releases it to float.  Sometimes slaves
>hold the line low until they are ready to continue with the communication.
>As a side note, the timeout means that the driver just goes on as if the line
>became high.  Maybe it should produce an error instead.
>
>Anyway, I would like to increase the current timeout of 100 x 10us to 1000 x
>10us.  The rationale is that there are many slave devices, like sensors, that
>take about 10 ms to return a result.  So, I think that it makes sense to play
>nice with such devices by default.
>
>Probably I'll add a sysctl for that parameter while I'll be there.

sysctl or ioctl ?

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