* Wolfram Sang <w...@the-dreams.de> [141124 11:14]:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 01:10:23PM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:08:48AM -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Alexander Kochetkov
> > > <al.koc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > In a multimaster environment, after IP software reset, BB-bit value 
> > > > doesn't
> > > > correspond to the current bus state. It may happen what BB-bit will be 
> > > > 0,
> > > > while the bus is busy due to another I2C master activity.
> > > >
> > > > Any transfer started when BB=0 and bus is busy wouldn't be completed by 
> > > > IP
> > > > and results in controller timeout. More over, in some cases IP could
> > > > interrupt another master's transfer and corrupt data on wire.
> > > >
> > > > The commit implement method allowing to prevent IP from entering into
> > > > "controller timeout" state and from "data corruption" state.
> > > >
> > > > The one drawback is the need to wait for 10ms before the first transfer.
> > > >
> > > > Tested on Beagleboard XM C.
> > > > Tested on BBB and AM437x Starter Kit by Felipe Balbi.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kochetkov <al.koc...@gmail.com>
> > > > Tested-by: Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com>
> > > 
> > > This patch recently hit linux-next (as commit 903c3859f77f) and boot
> > > breakage[1] in next-20141124 on OMAP3530 Beagle and Overo/Tobi boards
> > > was bisected down to this commit.
> > > 
> > > Kevin
> > > 
> > > [1] http://status.armcloud.us/boot/?next-20141124&omap
> > 
> > btw, based on Kevin's boot test, only OMAP3530 is failing.
> 
> OK, giving Alexander some time for a fix. If it can't be found, I'll
> revert this patch. Thanks!

I can confirm reverting it fixes things for me as well thanks.

Regards,

Tony

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