On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 7:05 PM, Jarkko Nikula wrote: > Hi > Hi > > On 8/23/24 6:02 AM, Jiawen Wu wrote: > > Sometimes the driver can not get the SFP information because the I2C bus > > is accessed by the firmware at the same time. So we need to add the lock > > on the I2C bus access. The hardware semaphores perform this lock. > > > > Jiawen Wu (3): > > net: txgbe: add IO address in I2C platform device data > > i2c: designware: add device private data passing to lock functions > > i2c: designware: support hardware lock for Wangxun 10Gb NIC > > > I was wondering the Fixes tag use in the series. Obviously patchset is > not fixing a regression so question is what happens when issue occurs? > > I don't think e.g. failing I2C transfer with an error code yet qualifies > backporting into Linux stable? Ah, I think this was a leftover bug from when I added Wangxun NIC support in I2C designware, so I added a fix tag.
