On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 04:46:12PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 04:10:48PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote: > > From: Peter Swain <[email protected]> > > > > Make the i2c adapter timeout a module parameter to allow upper-level > > target device drivers to retry with their own logic before their own > > timeouts abort operations. > > > > For example, at24 eeprom driver retries for 25ms when -EAGAIN > > indicates that an eeprom has gone unresponsive while committing > > a newly written page (5ms on typical devices). > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Swain <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <[email protected]> > > i2c-dev has IOCTLs for timeout and retries. Can't you use those? >
Yes, with these IOCTLs we don't need to add a module parameter so I'll drop that.
