On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 09:29:21PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > This patch series fixes a whole chunk of problems with this driver, > discovered with the Marvell Armada 510 chip on the Solid-run cubox. > > Most notable of these is the I2C driver aborting a transaction > because a signal is pending - which might be SIGPIPE or SIGALRM > for the process. Meanwhile, the calling driver may be in the > middle of a critical read-modify-write cycle on a device register, > causing it to fail. > > Other problems are race conditions in the handling of multi-part > messages, where we end up sending multiple start conditions - > sometimes more times than we have i2c_msg's to send. > > Lastly is the rather poor probe error handling, which ranges from > non-existent to lacking propagating the provided error code. Applied rest of the series to for-next, thanks!
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