RE: [PATCH] CHROMIUM: tpm: tpm_tis_i2c: Lock the I2C adapter for asequence of requests.

From: Huewe.external
Date: Fri Aug 05 2011 - 03:43:54 EST


Looks good to me :)

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <huewe.external@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Subject: [PATCH] CHROMIUM: tpm: tpm_tis_i2c: Lock the I2C adapter for a
> sequence of requests.
>
> This is derived from Peter Huewe's recommended fix:
>
> On some ChromeOS systems, a TPM sharing the I2C bus with another device
> gets confused when it sees I2C requests to that other device.
> This change locks the I2C adapter for the duration of the full sequence
> of I2C requests the TPM needs to complete.
>
> smbus_xfer is not supported, but SMBUS is not supported by the original
> driver, either.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan Freed <bfreed@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

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