Re: [PATCH] i2c: Allow recovery of the initial IRQ by a i2c client device.

[Jim Broadus]

Thank you Charles. I should probably correct the typos in my commit message.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:06 AM Charles Keepax
<ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 04:15:33PM -0800, Jim Broadus wrote:
> > A previous change allowed i2c client devices to discover new IRQs upon
> > reprobe. By clearing the IRQ in i2c_device_remove. However, if an IRQ was
> > assigned in i2c_new_device, that information is lost.
> >
> > For example, the touchscreen and trackpad devices on a Dell Inspiron laptop
> > are I2C devices whose IRQs are defined by ACPI extended IRQ types. The
> > client device structures are initialized during an ACPI walk. After
> > removing the i2c_hid device, modprobe fails.
> >
> > This change caches the initial IRQ value in i2c_new_device and then resets
> > the client device IRQ to the initial value in i2c_device_remove.
> >
> > Fixes: 6f108dd70d30 ("i2c: Clear client->irq in i2c_device_remove")
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Broadus <jbroadus@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Apologies for the issues caused. I think this looks like a good fix
> to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles