On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 07:51:54PM +0000, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote: > On 11-12-2013 19:29, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0000, José Miguel Gonçalves wrote: > >>Some I2C bus drivers do not allow zero-length data transfers which are > >>required to start a measurement with the HIH6130/1 sensor. Nevertheless, > >>we can overcome this limitation by writing a zero dummy byte. This byte > >>is ignored by the sensor and was verified to be working with the OMAP > >>I2C bus driver in a BeagleBone board. > >> > >>Signed-off-by: José Miguel Gonçalves <jose.goncalves@xxxxxxx> > >Applied, after simplifying write_length initialization a bit. > > > >Should this go to -stable ? > > Any BeagleBone user that tries to use this sensor will encounter > this issue. As this board is very popular, this will potentially > solve the problems of many users. Nevertheless, it does not seems to > me that this patch fixes "something critical", which is one of the > conditions to be accepted in the -stable tree. > Depends on the definition of "critical". Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
