Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c: designware: make i2c xfers non-interruptible

[Christian Ruppert]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:25:55AM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:43:36PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> > When the process at the source of an i2c transfer is killed in the
> > middle of the transfer, the transfer is interrupted. Interrupted
> > transfers might cause buggy slaves on the bus (or higher level drivers)
> > to go haywire.
> > This patch forces ongoing i2c transfers to finish properly, even if the
> > initiating process is killed.
> 
> I already sent a similar patch ;-)
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2601241/
> 
> However, it is not yet picked by Wolfram.

Oops, this looks like a human race condition :) I checked main line and
Wolfram's git but didn't think of checking patchwork. I'll rebase the
second patch on yours.

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