Hello Greg, Wolfram recommends the backporting of this series in order to improve the situation with a race condition. Do you think you can take this series for 4.4 stable? This series applies on 4.4.133, and depends on series: "Fix R-Car I2C data byte sent twice issue" Thanks, Fab Wolfram Sang (3): i2c: rcar: don't issue stop when HW does it automatically i2c: rcar: check master irqs before slave irqs i2c: rcar: revoke START request early drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 36 ++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4