Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] i2c: Don't start transfers when suspended

Wolfram Sang
2014-09-19T17:17:59Z

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Bastian Hecht wrote:
> i2c transfer requests come in very uncontrolled, like from interrupt routines.
> We might be suspended when this happens. To avoid i2c timeouts caused by
> powered down busses we check for suspension.
>
> Several bus drivers handle this problem on their own. We can clean things up
> by moving the protection mechanism into the core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bastian Hecht <hechtb@gmail.com>

Dropping this series due to the comments. I am not sure if it is worth
to add information about the clients being "normally" suspendable or
not. Thanks Bastian for the effort, though.