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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2005-08-09 20:28:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-09-05 09:14:25 -0700 |
| commit | 4c9337da37c877e53a64696fc8524f642d446cba (patch) | |
| tree | 30f34691bd61b55b11ec19f6fbc27ae69886eff8 /Documentation | |
| parent | a89ba0bc02e82920a0f4137aa5d655ac0366cc28 (diff) | |
[PATCH] I2C: Centralize 24RF08 corruption prevention
The 24RF08 corruption would better be prevented at i2c-core level than
at chip driver level, for several reasons:
* The second quick write should happen as soon as possible after the
first one, so as to limit the risk that another command is issued on
the bus inbetween, causing the corruption.
* As a matter of fact, the protection code at driver level was reworked
at least three times already, which proves how hard it is to get it
right there, while it's straightforward at i2c-core level.
* It's easy to add a new driver that would need the protection, and
forget to add it. This did happen already.
* As additional probing addresses can be passed to most i2c chip drivers
as module parameters, virtually every i2c chip driver would need the
protection if we want to be really safe.
* Why duplicate code when we can easily avoid it?
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/porting-clients | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients index 5eb8d37cc679..4849dfd6961c 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients @@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ Technical changes: device_create_file. Move the driver initialization before any sysfs file creation. Drop client->id. + Drop any 24RF08 corruption prevention you find, as this is now done + at the i2c-core level, and doing it twice voids it. * [Init] Limits must not be set by the driver (can be done later in user-space). Chip should not be reset default (although a module |