Re: Fwd: [Proposal] PM sleep children of inactive I2C bus segments off Masters in multi-master systems

[Wolfram Sang]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 02:16:57PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:10:47PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > 
> > > Maybe you can find an error code which with some level of confidence
> > > reflects "lost mastership". Then you can implement whatever makes sense
> > > for your use case in your user space application(s).
> > 
> > We have a documented fault code for ArbitrationLost and that is -EAGAIN
> > (see Documentation/i2c/fault-codes). If a driver does use something
> > else, patches are very welcome.
> > 
> > Other than that, I find this thread very confusing. Of course can
> > another master modify the clients, this is what multi-master is all
> > about, no?
> > 
> That is the point I was trying to make in one of my earlier replies.

Yes, and I wondered why the thread continued after that, so I thought
I'll bring it up again :) No, seriously, I did not understand the reply
to that mail of yours, but I'll try again tomorrow after some sleep.

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