Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/9] eeprom: at24: at24cs series serial number read

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed Oct 21 2015 - 10:42:12 EST


2015-10-21 16:23 GMT+02:00 Peter Korsgaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> "Bartosz" == Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >> As the serial number is available on a separate i2c address, wouldn't
> >> it be simpler to handle these as special (read only) device variants and
> >> instantiate E.G. a 24c64 (for the normal data) and a 24cs64 (for the
> >> serial)?
> >>
>
> > Hi Peter,
>
> > I wanted to respond that this way we would not be protected from
> > concurrent accesses, but then I saw I didn't actually include any
> > locks in the serial read function - my bad. It needs to be fixed as
> > both memory blocks share the same address pointer.
>
> > I'll resend the series.
>
> But we're protected by the i2c bus lock, right? You do a single
> i2c_transfer to read the serial number.

Why the at24->lock then?

Best regards,
Bartosz Golaszewski
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