Re: [PATCH 1/9] I2C: mv64xxx: work around signals causing I2C transactions to be aborted

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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 09:30:59PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Do not use interruptible waits in an I2C driver; if a process uses
> signals (eg, Xorg uses SIGALRM and SIGPIPE) then these signals can
> cause the I2C driver to abort a transaction in progress by another
> driver, which can cause that driver to fail.  I2C drivers are not
> expected to abort transactions on signals.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I don't have hardware to test but I have no issues with these patches so,
FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

for the entire series.
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