Hi Am 13.05.2016 um 12:33 schrieb Wolfram Sang: > >> I was playing with the DRM framework and an old SiS graphics card. I >> discovered this issue while trying to read the EDID from the monitor. > > So, there is no upstream user yet? No. >> I have a few other SiS cards/models here and they all expose this >> behavior. So I guess it's intentional(==cheaper?), although the HW docs >> don't seem mention it explicitly. > > OK. Well. As this flag is potentially dangerous, I would prefer to not > apply the patch unless there is an upstream user of this. If there is > one, I'd be okay with applying it with the flag renamed to something > like "dangerous_push_pull_bus" or similar with additional comments > saying there is some (broken) HW which needs it but nobody should get > the idea to design a bus like this. > > Makes sense? Sure, thanks! Best regards Thomas > Regards, > > Wolfram > -- GnuPG: http://tdz.users.sourceforge.net/tdz.asc Fingerprint: 16FF F599 82F8 E5AA 18C6 5220 D9DA D7D4 4EF1 DF08 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
