From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mika Westerberg Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c: designware: make i2c xfers non-interruptible Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 08:25:55 +0300 Message-ID: <20130607052555.GC11878@intel.com> References: <1370526216-10060-1-git-send-email-christian.ruppert@abilis.com> <1370526216-10060-2-git-send-email-christian.ruppert@abilis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1370526216-10060-2-git-send-email-christian.ruppert-ux6zf3SgZrrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christian Ruppert Cc: Wolfram Sang , Jean Delvare , Pierrick Hascoet , linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:43:36PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote: > When the process at the source of an i2c transfer is killed in the > middle of the transfer, the transfer is interrupted. Interrupted > transfers might cause buggy slaves on the bus (or higher level drivers) > to go haywire. > This patch forces ongoing i2c transfers to finish properly, even if the > initiating process is killed. I already sent a similar patch ;-) https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2601241/ However, it is not yet picked by Wolfram.