[PATCH] ALI1563 SMBus driver fix - take 2

[greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)]

On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:57:37PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Greg, Rudolf,
> 
> > Please can my patch go to 2.6.12? It is quite critical bug fix.
> > Without the fixes driver is simply unusable.
> > 
> > 1) It wont work with newer revisions
> > 2) It would not work even with older because i2c transaction size mask
> > is missing. That means if you use eeprom driver and sensor driver you
> > wont get any data. I mean data that would make sense.The missing mask
> > would trigger some WORD modes...
> > 
> > 3) eeprom reading wont work because command type goes to DAT0 and not
> > to CMD.
> > 
> > So whole patch is needed to address all "grave" issues.
> 
> I'd second Rudolf's request. This patch would be really welcome into
> 2.6.12, without it the i2c-ali1563 driver is plain broken and will most
> probably generate lots of support requests.

Ok, I've moved it up to my "before 2.6.12 is out" set of patches to be
sent out.

thanks,

greg k-h