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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c index 260c5d70b0b4..35812823787b 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c @@ -357,10 +357,26 @@ static int sendbytes(struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adap, struct i2c_msg *msg) count--; temp++; wrcount++; - } else { /* arbitration or no acknowledge */ - dev_err(&i2c_adap->dev, "sendbytes: error - bailout.\n"); - return (retval<0)? retval : -EFAULT; - /* got a better one ?? */ + + /* A slave NAKing the master means the slave didn't like + * something about the data it saw. For example, maybe + * the SMBus PEC was wrong. + */ + } else if (retval == 0) { + dev_err(&i2c_adap->dev, "sendbytes: NAK bailout.\n"); + return -EIO; + + /* Timeout; or (someday) lost arbitration + * + * FIXME Lost ARB implies retrying the transaction from + * the first message, after the "winning" master issues + * its STOP. As a rule, upper layer code has no reason + * to know or care about this ... it is *NOT* an error. + */ + } else { + dev_err(&i2c_adap->dev, "sendbytes: error %d\n", + retval); + return retval; } } return wrcount; |