On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 01:01:06PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 01:53:40PM -0600, Steven J. Hill wrote: > > On 11/14/2016 12:50 PM, Jan Glauber wrote: > > > > > > Since time is running out for 4.9 (or might have already if you're not > > > going to send another pull request) I'm going for the safe option > > > to fix the Octeon i2c problems, which is: > > > > > > 1. Reverting the readq_poll_timeout patch since it is broken > > > 2. Apply Patch #2 from Paul > > > 3. Add a small fix for the recovery that makes Paul's patch > > > work on ThunderX > > > > > > I'll try to come up with a better solution for 4.10. My plan is to get rid > > > of the polling-around-interrupt thing completely, but for that we need more > > > time to make it work on Octeon. > > > > > > Please consider for 4.9. > > > > > Hey Jan. > > > > This does not work on Octeon 71xx platforms. I will look at it more > > closely tomorrow. > > What's the outcome here? It seems we want a bugfix for 4.9 but this > report keeps me reluctant to apply the series. > Steven, did you have a chance to check which of the patches makes Octeon 71xx fail? --Jan
