From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.28-rc5] i2c: remove i2c_adapter.clist_lock Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:24:01 -0800 Message-ID: <200811250224.01610.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200811201438.08788.david-b@pacbell.net> <20081125101203.58e3f032@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081125101203.58e3f032-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: Linux-I2C List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.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