Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] i2c: octeon: thunder: Fix i2c not working on Octeon

[Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 01:01:06PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 01:53:40PM -0600, Steven J. Hill wrote:
> > On 11/14/2016 12:50 PM, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > > 
> > > Since time is running out for 4.9 (or might have already if you're not
> > > going to send another pull request) I'm going for the safe option
> > > to fix the Octeon i2c problems, which is:
> > > 
> > > 1. Reverting the readq_poll_timeout patch since it is broken
> > > 2. Apply Patch #2 from Paul
> > > 3. Add a small fix for the recovery that makes Paul's patch
> > >    work on ThunderX
> > > 
> > > I'll try to come up with a better solution for 4.10. My plan is to get rid
> > > of the polling-around-interrupt thing completely, but for that we need more
> > > time to make it work on Octeon.
> > > 
> > > Please consider for 4.9.
> > > 
> > Hey Jan.
> > 
> > This does not work on Octeon 71xx platforms. I will look at it more
> > closely tomorrow.
> 
> What's the outcome here? It seems we want a bugfix for 4.9 but this
> report keeps me reluctant to apply the series.
> 

Steven, did you have a chance to check which of the patches makes
Octeon 71xx fail?

--Jan