Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/7] i2c: core: use I2C locking behaviour also for SMBUS

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Mar 04 2019 - 07:35:25 EST


On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 2:49 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I2C transfers are executed in atomic contexts, trylock is used
> instead of lock. This behaviour was missing for SMBUS, although a lot of
> transfers are of SMBUS type, either emulated or direct. So, factor out
> the locking routine into a helper and use it for I2C and SMBUS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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