SMBus Compatibility With an I²C Device

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:54:30 +0000

Some naive guys – like me – think that SMBus and I²C are equal expect the bus level. But in the last days I run into a problem where an at24 based EEPROM connected via SMBus triggers a bus collision after a warm reboot. After some hours of debugging – even staring minutes at a oscilloscope showing SDD and SDC lines – I started to add some dump_stack() calls into i2c_core.c file form a recent linux kernel. And I found the bad bus transaction – i2c_probe_func_quick_read(..).

I2c on Christian Gmeiner

SMBus Compatibility With an I²C Device