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From: David Brownell <david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Linux-I2C <linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.28-rc5] i2c:  remove i2c_adapter.clist_lock
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:24:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811250224.01610.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081125101203.58e3f032-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>

On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I'm not sure I want to take this change at this point. Call me chicken,
> but I seem to recall problems with legacy i2c clients last time we
> tried to clean up this area.

I did test this with the legacy "eeprom" and "i2c-stub" as you had
suggested.  Worked fine ... this is different from previous passes,
as it removes the lock instead of the list, and doesn't attempt to
change how the list is (mis/ab)used.

But if you prefer to wait until the list can go too, OK.

- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-20 22:38 [patch 2.6.28-rc5] i2c: remove i2c_adapter.clist_lock David Brownell
     [not found] ` <200811201438.08788.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-25  9:12   ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]     ` <20081125101203.58e3f032-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-25 10:24       ` David Brownell [this message]
     [not found]         ` <200811250224.01610.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-25 11:01           ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]             ` <20081125120100.6581f394-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-25 11:27               ` David Brownell
     [not found]                 ` <200811250327.08464.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-25 11:54                   ` Jean Delvare

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