Re: [PATCH 1/5] i2c: smbus: add unlocked __i2c_smbus_xfer variant

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Mon Jun 25 2018 - 22:38:09 EST



> This is not perfectly equivalent, since i2c_smbus_xfer was callable from
> atomic/irq context if you happened to end up emulating SMBus with an I2C
> transfer, and that is no longer the case with this patch. It is unknown
> (to me) if anything depends on that quirk, but it seems fragile enough to
> simply break those cases and require them to call i2c_transfer directly
> instead.

Couldn't we just add the same trylock-code path here as well? I always
wondered why I2C and SMBus were not in sync when it came to that. Yet, I
didn't want to change the code for no reason, but it seems we now have
one?

Rest of the series looks good to me, very nice diffstat!