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authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>2007-10-13 23:56:32 +0200
committerJean Delvare <khali@hyperion.delvare>2007-10-13 23:56:32 +0200
commit24d0fb423ca18adf509dec8a7326c0bdd6653e41 (patch)
treefa6db5f0dca5f0a2844de560ca0086740f0a9627
parent08fb68bb4bbc9c5970e4ed4920cb6144a70684cd (diff)
i2c-at91: Mark as broken
Mark the i2c-at91 driver BROKEN in Kconfig, and explain just why it's broken. (Summary: hardware design issues.) Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
index a9cab3e5b8b..de95c75efb4 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
@@ -75,11 +75,19 @@ config I2C_AMD8111
config I2C_AT91
tristate "Atmel AT91 I2C Two-Wire interface (TWI)"
- depends on ARCH_AT91 && EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on ARCH_AT91 && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
help
This supports the use of the I2C interface on Atmel AT91
processors.
+ This driver is BROKEN because the controller which it uses
+ will easily trigger RX overrun and TX underrun errors. Using
+ low I2C clock rates may partially work around those issues
+ on some systems. Another serious problem is that there is no
+ documented way to issue repeated START conditions, as needed
+ to support combined I2C messages. Use the i2c-gpio driver
+ unless your system can cope with those limitations.
+
config I2C_AU1550
tristate "Au1550/Au1200 SMBus interface"
depends on SOC_AU1550 || SOC_AU1200