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From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
To: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@marvell.com>
Cc: haojian.zhuang@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lrg@slimlogic.co.uk, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com,
	a.zummo@towertech.it, khali@linux-fr.org, ben-linux@fluff.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mfd: 88pm860x: enhance lock on i2c transaction
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:20:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110513142057.GC8970@sortiz-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304673685-21324-3-git-send-email-haojian.zhuang@marvell.com>

Hi Haojian,

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 05:21:22PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> Accessing test page in 88pm860x is a sequence of read/write on i2c bus.
> Bus lock is used in each small i2c transaction. But it may result the
> whole sequence interrupted by other i2c client transaction.
Sure, but what you mainly want is your MFD i2c IO calls to be serialized, and
that's already being taken care of by the current code.
Are other i2c clients (non MFD ones) touching the same i2c registers than the
MFD ones ?

Cheers,
Samuel.

-- 
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
http://oss.intel.com/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-13 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2011050601>
2011-05-06  9:21 ` [PATCH 1/6] mfd: 88pm860x: support rtc Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-06  9:21   ` [PATCH 2/6] mfd: 88pm860x: avoid to allocate static platform data Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-06  9:21     ` [PATCH 3/6] mfd: 88pm860x: enhance lock on i2c transaction Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-06  9:21       ` [PATCH 4/6] mfd: 88pm860x: avoid to use constraint name in regulator driver Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-06  9:21         ` [PATCH 5/6] mfd: 88pm860x: remove unused parameter Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-06  9:21           ` [PATCH 6/6] mfd: max8925: remove checking on regulator[0] Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-06 11:49             ` Mark Brown
2011-05-13 14:24             ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-05-13 14:24           ` [PATCH 5/6] mfd: 88pm860x: remove unused parameter Samuel Ortiz
2011-05-06 13:06         ` [PATCH 4/6] mfd: 88pm860x: avoid to use constraint name in regulator driver Mark Brown
2011-05-13 14:21         ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-05-13 14:20       ` Samuel Ortiz [this message]
2011-05-13 15:00         ` [PATCH 3/6] mfd: 88pm860x: enhance lock on i2c transaction Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-13 18:27           ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-05-14 13:40             ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-05-13 14:14     ` [PATCH 2/6] mfd: 88pm860x: avoid to allocate static platform data Samuel Ortiz
2011-05-13 14:13   ` [PATCH 1/6] mfd: 88pm860x: support rtc Samuel Ortiz

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