From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: Adding support for Intel iSMT SMBus 2.0 host controller Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 08:33:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20120803083342.76f0df3b@endymion.delvare> References: <1343683421-12504-1-git-send-email-bill.e.brown@intel.com> <1343954343.24204.5.camel@bebrown-nhm1.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1343954343.24204.5.camel-ttzMDwopN+0VpfeQ83dqLK2pdiUAq4bhAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bill Brown Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Hi Bill, On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:39:03 -0700, Bill Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:23 -0700, Bill Brown wrote: > > The iSMT (Intel SMBus Message Transport) supports multi-master I2C/SMBus, > > as well as IPMI. It's operation is DMA-based and utilizes descriptors to > > initiate transactions on the bus. > > > > The iSMT hardware can act as both a master and a target, although this > > driver only supports being a master. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bill Brown > > I haven't seen any activity on this yet...good to go, or has anyone had > a chance to review it yet? I'd like to get it into the 3.6 kernel if > possible. Summer time is when when people take vacation, this increases review delays. I'm afraid it's too late for 3.6, rc1 is already out. In order to get a patch in a kernel version, you must have it in linux-next before the merge window opens. -- Jean Delvare