Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: virtio: disable timeout handling

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On 19-10-21, 11:36, Greg KH wrote:
> What is the "other side" here?  Is it something that you trust or not?

Other side can be a remote processor (for remoteproc over virtio or
something similar), or traditionally it can be host OS or host
firmware providing virtualisation to a Guest running Linux (this
driver). Or something else..

I would incline towards "we trust the other side" here.

> Usually we trust the hardware, but if you do not trust the hardware,
> then yes, you need to have a timeout here.

The other side is the software that has access to the _Real_ hardware,
and so we should trust it. So we can have a actually have a completion
without timeout here, interesting.

-- 
viresh
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