The "alternative command" feature was introduced with sama5d2 SoCs. Its purpose is to let the hardware i2c controller automatically send the STOP condition on the i2c bus at the end of a data transfer. Without this feature, the i2c driver has to write the 'STOP' bit into the Control Register so the hardware i2c controller is triggered to send the STOP condition on the bus. Using the "alternative command" feature requires to set the transfer data length into the 8bit DATAL field of the Alternative Command Register. Hence only data transfers up to 255 bytes can take advantage of the "alternative command" feature. For greater data transfer sizes, the driver should use the previous implementation, when the "alternative command" support was not implemented yet. Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>