Hi Viresh,

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@st.com> wrote:
> Add i2c bus recovery infrastructure to i2c adapters as specified in the i2c
> protocol Rev. 03 section 3.16 titled "Bus clear".
>
> http://www.nxp.com/documents/user_manual/UM10204.pdf
>
> Sometimes during operation i2c bus hangs and we need to give dummy clocks to
> slave device to start the transfer again. Now we may have capability in the 
> bus
> controller to generate these clocks or platform may have gpio pins which can 
> be
> toggled to generate dummy clocks. This patch supports both.
>
> This patch also adds in generic bus recovery routines gpio or scl line based
> which can be used by bus controller. In addition controller driver may provide
> its own version of the bus recovery routine.
>

It might me worth how was this tested?
Was both the approaches given a try?
Also it might help if one of the drivers currently doing it is
ported to the framework.

Just a suggestion not an objection to the patch.

> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@st.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/i2c/bus-recovery |   87 ++++++++++++++++++++++
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