On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:11 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
[...]
> What about the following patch?
>
> From: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: i2c: Add an interface to lock/unlock I2C bus segment
>
> Some drivers need to be able to prevent access to an I2C bus segment
> for a specific period of time. Add an interface for them to do so
> without twiddling with i2c-core internals.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Presumably this is meant for net-next-2.6, and you'll implement
i2c_{lock,unlock}_adapter() using rt_mutex in your i2c tree?
Ben.
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