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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Linux I2C <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>,
	Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
	Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: i2c-i801 partially broken on Lynx Point PCH?
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 15:02:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160518130253.GA1637@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160518140508.7dfe192e@endymion>

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> 1* Remove I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_I2C_BLOCK from the list of supported
>    transactions whenever SPD write protection is enabled. In practice I
>    think I2C Block Read is only useful for EEPROMs anyway, so I doubt
>    anyone else will miss it. This is clearly a hack, but it's quite
>    simple. Then the eeprom and at24 drivers will automatically fall
>    back to slower read methods.

Doesn't feel very hackish to me. We skip a functionality which is known
to not work in this configuration. IIUC we might be able to get it to
work if we throw more code at it, but I don't like the extra complexity
in the I2C core for such a rare case.

Summary: My preferred solution so far :)


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-18 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-11  7:34 i2c-i801 partially broken on Lynx Point PCH? Jean Delvare
2016-05-11  8:43 ` Jean Delvare
2016-05-11 16:15   ` Heasley, Seth
2016-05-11 17:34     ` Jean Delvare
2016-05-11 17:46       ` Heasley, Seth
2016-05-18 12:05   ` Jean Delvare
2016-05-18 13:02     ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2016-05-18 13:20     ` Jean Delvare
2016-05-19 11:02       ` Jarkko Nikula
2016-05-19 11:29         ` Jean Delvare

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