[PATCH] ALI1563 SMBus driver fix - take 2

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Hi Greg, Rudolf,

> Please can my patch go to 2.6.12? It is quite critical bug fix.
> Without the fixes driver is simply unusable.
> 
> 1) It wont work with newer revisions
> 2) It would not work even with older because i2c transaction size mask
> is missing. That means if you use eeprom driver and sensor driver you
> wont get any data. I mean data that would make sense.The missing mask
> would trigger some WORD modes...
> 
> 3) eeprom reading wont work because command type goes to DAT0 and not
> to CMD.
> 
> So whole patch is needed to address all "grave" issues.

I'd second Rudolf's request. This patch would be really welcome into
2.6.12, without it the i2c-ali1563 driver is plain broken and will most
probably generate lots of support requests.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare



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