Re: recursive locking problem

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:03:58AM +0300, Antti Palosaari wrote:
> On 09/09/2011 02:46 PM, Daniel Glöckner wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 07:34:32PM +0300, Antti Palosaari wrote:
> >>I am working with AF9015 I2C-adapter lock. I need lock I2C-bus since
> >>there is two tuners having same I2C address on same bus, demod I2C
> >>gate is used to select correct tuner.
> >
> >Would it be possible to use the i2c-mux framework to handle this?
> >Each tuner will then have its own i2c bus.
> 
> Interesting idea, but it didn't worked. It deadlocks. I think it
> locks since I2C-mux is controlled by I2C "switch" in same I2C bus,
> not GPIO or some other HW.

Take a look at drivers/i2c/muxes/pca954x.c. You need to use
parent->algo->master_xfer/smbus_xfer directly as the lock that
protects you from having both gates open is the lock of the
root i2c bus.

  Daniel
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