From: khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] i2c: append hardware lock with bus lock
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 11:46:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110502114616.7813da79@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110502092734.GV15795@trinity.fluff.org>
On Mon, 2 May 2011 10:27:34 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:15:44PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> > Both AP and CP are contained in Marvell PXA910 silicon. These two ARM
> > cores are sharing one pair of I2C pins.
> >
> > In order to keep I2C transaction operated with atomic, hardware lock
> > (RIPC) is required. Because of this, bus lock in AP side can't afford
> > this requirement. Now hardware lock is appended.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@marvell.com>
> > Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
> > Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
>
> Right, this looks like a reasonable explanation of what is going on here
> and if Jean is happy with the core changes I'll look at where the driver
> change can go.
Yes I am!
Let me know if you want me to take the core change in my tree or if you
prefer to have it in yours to avoid a dependency.
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-02 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-04-28 4:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] i2c: append hardware lock with bus lock Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-28 8:22 ` Jean Delvare
2011-04-28 8:36 ` Eric Miao
2011-04-28 14:16 ` Jean Delvare
2011-04-28 14:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-28 14:48 ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-28 14:19 ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-28 4:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] i2c: pxa: support hardware lock Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-28 4:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: mmp: add hardware lock support in PXA910 Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-28 15:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] i2c: append hardware lock with bus lock Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-02 9:27 ` Ben Dooks
2011-05-02 9:46 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2011-05-10 23:08 ` Ben Dooks
2011-04-28 15:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] i2c: pxa: support hardware lock Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-28 15:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: mmp: add hardware lock support in PXA910 Haojian Zhuang
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