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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>,
	Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>,
	Yufeng Shen <miletus@chromium.org>,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: handle zero-length writes
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:54:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333493687_224682@CP5-2952> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333108003-6341-2-git-send-email-djkurtz@chromium.org>

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:46:36 +0800, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org> wrote:
> A common method of probing an i2c bus is trying to do a zero-length write.
> Handle this case by checking the length first before decrementing it.
> 
> This is actually important, since attempting a zero-length write is one
> of the ways that i2cdetect and i2c_new_probed_device detect whether
> there is device present on the bus with a given address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>

Having done a good job with handling zero length writes, can I tempt to
submit a similar fix for zero length reads? ;)
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-03 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 11:46 [PATCH 0/8 v7] fix gmbus writes and related issues Daniel Kurtz
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 1/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: handle zero-length writes Daniel Kurtz
2012-04-03 22:54   ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use double-buffered writes Daniel Kurtz
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 3/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: always wait for IDLE before clearing NAK Daniel Kurtz
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 4/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use WAIT cycle, not STOP Daniel Kurtz
2012-04-10 10:37   ` Daniel Vetter
2012-04-10 10:41     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-04-10 10:56       ` Daniel Kurtz
2012-04-10 15:03         ` Daniel Vetter
2012-04-10 21:34           ` Chris Wilson
2012-04-11 18:17             ` Daniel Kurtz
2012-04-11 20:26               ` Chris Wilson
2012-04-13 11:49                 ` Daniel Kurtz
2012-04-11 18:16           ` Daniel Kurtz
2012-04-11 20:04             ` Daniel Vetter
2012-04-11 20:28             ` Chris Wilson
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 5/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use INDEX cycles for i2c read transactions Daniel Kurtz
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 6/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: reuse GMBUS2 value read in polling loop Daniel Kurtz
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 7/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: remove POSTING_READ() from gmbus transfers Daniel Kurtz
2012-03-30 11:46 ` [PATCH 8/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use DRM_ERROR on timeouts Daniel Kurtz
2012-03-30 12:49 ` [PATCH 0/8 v7] fix gmbus writes and related issues Chris Wilson
2012-03-30 15:33   ` Daniel Vetter

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