From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, i2c@lm-sensors.org,
khali@linux-fr.org, adrian@humboldt.co.uk,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Incremental i2c-mpc driver fix for multi-master i2c busses.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:12:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090112141200.ca89caab.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090105132102.GA27855@clifford.at>
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:21:02 +0100
Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at> wrote:
> Incremental i2c-mpc driver fix for multi-master i2c busses.
>
> This is an incremental bugfix for the i2c-mpc driver. It is based
> on the bugfix I've sent on 2008-12-22:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/22/99
>
> There still was a remaining problem with multi-master i2c busses
> when an i2c bus access is interrupted by a unix signal while
> waiting for bus arbitration.
>
> This is an extreamly rare case but I managed to stumble over it in
> multi master i2c performance tests.
>
> Tested with a freescale MPC8349E host cpu.
That's not a very good changelog - it has basically no information,
apart from the linked-to original changelog.
And the linked-to changelog has no description of the bug which is
being fixed.
> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c (revision 2216)
> +++ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c (working copy)
Please prepare patches in `patch -p1' form:
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
+++ a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 13:21 [PATCH] Incremental i2c-mpc driver fix for multi-master i2c busses Clifford Wolf
2009-01-06 10:23 ` Ben Dooks
2009-01-12 22:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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