Dang, this was the wrong patch.  Although you are right, I'll look at 
that for the patch you talk about.

here it is atain.

-Corey

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>+/* Another note: This interface is extremely sensitive to timing and
>>+   failure handling.  If you don't wait at least one jiffie after
>>+   starting the transaction before checking things, you will screw it
>>+   up.  If you don't wait a jiffie after the final check, you will
>>+   screw it up.  If you screw it up by these manners or by abandoning
>>+   an operation in progress, the I2C bus is likely stuck and won't
>>+   work any more.  Gotta love this hardware. */
>>    
>>
>
>this sounds scary. Your "jiffie" in the comment, for which value of HZ
>is that taken? Would you consider changing this to absolute time
>instead?
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