From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
BARRE Sebastien <sbarre@sdelcc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc-ds1307: True SMBus compatibility
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:48:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901061448.56500.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231177261.13443.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Monday 05 January 2009, Ed Swierk wrote:
> Reading or writing registers repeatedly until they stick is rather
> nauseating but I'm aiming for correctness if not elegance. I would
> appreciate any suggestions for improvement.
Can i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data()/i2c_ smbus_write_i2c_block_data()
work better -- without nauseating anyone?
Faking atomic writes doesn't seem "correct" to me. Minimally there
is the case of an alarm misfiring.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 17:41 [PATCH] rtc-ds1307: True SMBus compatibility Ed Swierk
2009-01-06 22:48 ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-01-07 13:24 ` Jean Delvare
2009-01-07 15:22 ` Ed Swierk
2009-01-07 15:27 ` Jean Delvare
2009-01-07 15:43 ` Ed Swierk
2009-01-07 15:49 ` Jean Delvare
2009-01-19 23:59 ` Ed Swierk
2009-01-20 10:43 ` Jean Delvare
2009-01-26 6:33 ` Ed Swierk
2009-01-26 9:37 ` Jean Delvare
2009-01-26 21:06 ` David Brownell
2009-01-26 21:54 ` Ed Swierk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-05 17:36 Ed Swierk
2009-01-06 13:35 ` BARRE Sebastien
2009-01-06 22:06 ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-01-06 22:13 ` Ed Swierk
2009-01-07 14:22 ` BARRE Sebastien
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