Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c: designware: make i2c xfers non-interruptible

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Fri Jun 07 2013 - 01:21:56 EST


On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 03:43:36PM +0200, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> When the process at the source of an i2c transfer is killed in the
> middle of the transfer, the transfer is interrupted. Interrupted
> transfers might cause buggy slaves on the bus (or higher level drivers)
> to go haywire.
> This patch forces ongoing i2c transfers to finish properly, even if the
> initiating process is killed.

I already sent a similar patch ;-)

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2601241/

However, it is not yet picked by Wolfram.
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