Re: [PATCH] eeprom: at24: Add support for large EEPROMs connected to SMBus adapters
From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Wed Mar 25 2015 - 12:14:41 EST
Guenter,
thanks for the update
> Ultimately, the real problem is how i2c-dev accesses a client, not how
> i2c client drivers (who assume they have exclusive access to a chip)
> handle multi-command sequences. Forcing extensive locking on all drivers
> because of i2c-dev just doesn't seem to be the right thing to do.
I agree. i2c-dev is too much of a special case.
And since at24 has its own lock (I missed that), your patch might as
well be good enough to be applied, I'd think.
Thanks for this work!
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