RE: [PATCH v2 0/9] i2c-mlxbf.c: bug fixes and new feature support

Asmaa Mnebhi
2022-09-07T21:43:00Z

> What did change since v1 and where did Khalil's Rev-by tags go?
>
> Khalil told me to remove the rev-by : ) since it is supposed to be reserved for the reviewers.

But he reviewed the patches, or? Which makes him a reviewer? I mean he is the maintainer of the driver, so I basically a Rev-by from him.

Yes he did review the patch internally so I will add the Rev-by in v3

> I will add it back and describe what has changed in my next set of patches.

So, you are planning a v3 already?

I was going to send a v3 patch after I get some feedback on the other patches unless you'd prefer I send it now?

> As a note , this is what changed from v1->v2:

Cool, thank you for doing that.

> I think this is a bug fix because we have an i2c driver also in UEFI
> so we need this lock mechanism to avoid race conditions over acquiring
> the i2c bus. Not using this lock resulted in unexpected behavior.

OK, thank you!