Re: [PATCH] I2C: SiByte: Convert the driver to make use of interrupts

[Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:40:15PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Guenter Roeck
> <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:38:14AM -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
> >> From: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
> >>
> >> This is a rewrite of large parts of the driver mainly so that it uses
> >> SMBus interrupts to offload the CPU from busy-waiting on status inputs.
> >> As a part of the overhaul of the init and exit calls, all accesses to the
> >> hardware got converted to use accessory functions via an ioremap() cookie.
> >>
> >> Minimally rebased by Matt Turner.
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > I applied the patch to my 1480 tree. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with my system.
> > As far as I can see, the driver does not get any interrupts.
> >
> > My tree is 2.6.32, though. Do you know if I might be missing some other relevant patch ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guenter
> 
> I think this patch depends on
> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2010-12/msg00030.html
> 
I did apply the second patch as well, since you had mentioned it in your patch.
That did not help, though. Frankly, I don't see the dependency in the first place - the other 
patch only affects drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c, and I would hope that SMBus support does not depend
on an rtc driver. Am I missing something ?

Thanks,
Guenter