Re: [PATCH RESEND] FusionHDTV: Use quick reads for I2C IR device probing

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>]

Em 04-06-2010 12:14, Jean Delvare escreveu:
> Mauro,
> 
> On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:05:11 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> IR support on FusionHDTV cards is broken since kernel 2.6.31. One side
>> effect of the switch to the standard binding model for IR I2C devices
>> was to let i2c-core do the probing instead of the ir-kbd-i2c driver.
>> There is a slight difference between the two probe methods: i2c-core
>> uses 0-byte writes, while the ir-kbd-i2c was using 0-byte reads. As
>> some IR I2C devices only support reads, the new probe method fails to
>> detect them.
>>
>> For now, revert to letting the driver do the probe, using 0-byte
>> reads. In the future, i2c-core will be extended to let callers of
>> i2c_new_probed_device() provide a custom probing function.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
>> Tested-by: "Timothy D. Lenz" <tlenz@vorgon.com>
>> ---
>> This fix applies to kernels 2.6.31 to 2.6.34. Should be sent to Linus
>> quickly. I had already sent on March 29th, but apparently it was
>> overlooked. I have further i2c patches which depend on this one, so
>> please process it quickly, otherwise I'll have to push it myself.
> 
> This fix is still not upstream! What do I have to do to get it there?
> Please!

Just sent a pull request.

Cheers,
Mauro