[i2c] AT91 bus driver loses data

[Ronny Nilsson]

> > unfortunately scheduling introduces communication errors. I'm not
> > sure why but likely due to some other code path disables interrupts
> > for to long. Busy waiting works fairly well (but not perfect!),
> > system performance is degraded                                     
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> No kidding, eh?
>


> OK, I see it's hard-coded to 100kHz in the driver.  Try dropping that
> to ~10kHz and see what happens.  If things still don't improve, then
> you can either try to find and kill the big interrupt blocker or slow
> down the bus even more.

Hi
I totally agree, busy waiting is awfully awkward! I spent about two 
days just for trying to get wait_event() working before giving that 
up... It *is* possible to reduce the wire speed though as a workaround. 
At a clockrate of 50 kHz it works fairly well to sleep the system 
friendly way. If adding some safety margin we get about 30 kHz. 
However, I was thinking that no one would accept that kind of slow 
speed so I discarded it. I'm not sure of what speed a bit banging 
interface achieve but I'm imagining it's in that range too.

I can rollback to wait_event_timeout(), but is people going to accept 
that low speed?

Regards
/Ronny