Hello Tim, hello Wolfram,

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Tim Harvey wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello Tim,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 07:03:49AM -0700, Tim Harvey wrote:
> >> Gateworks Ventana IMX6 based boards have a Gateworks System Controller [1]
> >> (gsc) device that can NAK i2c transactions when its busy in an ADC loop. As
> >> this is always on i2c-0 we will add retries for that bus for any Ventana
> >> board.
> >
> > The right thing is to fix the drivers IMHO.
> >
> The issue I have is that the i2c device emulates several other devices
> with existing drivers (pca953x, ds1672, at24) and those drivers don't
> have any retry mechanism in place for a retry.
> 
> Maybe if I converted those drivers to use regmap I could implement a
> regmap with retries in the mfd driver for my device?

Wolfram: what do you think?

Best regards
Uwe

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