Re: Radeon regression fix

[Brad Campbell <lists2009@fnarfbargle.com>]

On 30/09/11 12:59, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Brad Campbell

>> Looking at it with a nights sleep, it's obvious the code path in
>> aux_native_write is ok. Is this a bit cleaner than the last patch?
>
> Looks pretty good.  I was thinking of something more like this (sorry
> for the lack of a patch, I'm away from my source trees at the moment):
>
> 	while (1) {
> 		ret = radeon_process_aux_ch(dig_connector->dp_i2c_bus,
> 					    msg, msg_bytes, recv, recv_bytes, delay,&ack);
>
> 		if (ret<  0)
> 			return ret;
> 		if ((ack&  AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_MASK) == AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_ACK)
> 			return ret;
> 		else if ((ack&  AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_MASK) == AUX_NATIVE_REPLY_DEFER)
> 			udelay(400);
> 		else if (ret == 0)
> 			return -EPROTO;
> 		else
> 			return -EIO;
> 	}

Yep, that looks cleaner.

My only thought was the pre-3.0 code had a limit to the number of 
retries. Was that for a specific reason or is it ok to attempt to retry 
indefinitely if we receive a DEFER ?

>
> Thanks for tracking this down.

No worries. I learned quite a bit about some kernel internals and more 
than a few quirks about apple hardware while muddling around.