Re: [PATCH] [RFC] i2c: Don't wait for device release in i2c_del_adapter

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Hi Guenter,

> On Jan 14, 2015, at 16:14 , Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 01/14/2015 05:54 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> 
>>> That being said, nobody complained about this in 11 years, so I would
>>> be surprised if it was plain wrong. I'd rather question the test code.
>>> Where is it?
>>> 
>> 
>> No-one has apparently tested removing an i2c mux device on a running system
>> before.
>> 
> Hi Pantelis,
> 
> We didn't see the problem with 3.14. That was with an earlier version of the
> overlay patchset, though.
> 

There have been changes to the overlay patchset since then true, but I don’t see
how that would trigger a deadlock in i2c. The completion wait just seems bogus to me.

> Guenter
> 

Regards

— Pantelis

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