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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:51:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] i2c: rcar: revoke START request early
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To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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On 4/2/2016 10:27 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:

>>     Thanks again! I ended up backporting all the patches up to #9. Not sure
>> it'd be acceptable for the -stable kernels since there's a lot of refactors
>> involved...
>
> That's what I thought, too.

    And I still don't feel good about the patch removing the spinlock -- I'm 
not sure it's SMP-safe...

MBR, Sergei