On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:09:59AM +0200, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
> Hello Felipe,
> 
> On 17/06/15 21:31, ext Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > With this patch we try to be as close to 50%
> > duty cycle as possible. The reason for this
> > is that some devices present an erratic behavior
> > with certain duty cycles.
> > 
> > One such example is TPS65218 PMIC which fails
> > to change voltages when running @ 400kHz and
> > duty cycle is lower than 34%.
> > 
> > The idea of the patch is simple:
> > 
> > calculate desired scl_period from requested scl
> > and use 50% for tLow and 50% for tHigh.
> > 
> > tLow is calculated with a DIV_ROUND_UP() to make
> > sure it's slightly higher than tHigh and to make
> > sure that we end up within I2C specifications.
> 
> if you refuse to change the calculations to achieve maximum possible
> bus rate (as I've shown you with SCLL=9 and SCLH=9), maybe you want to
> change the description? Because you are doing something else than is
> written here. You are only in spec because you are not doing 50% duty
> cycle. And you didn't mention here that you lower the bus speed below
> 400kHz to achieve this.

and there's a comment where the calculation goes which states "as close
to 50% as possible but we make sure tLow is higher than tHigh so we're
still within spec".

-- 
balbi

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