This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i2c: xiic: must always write 16-bit words to TX_FIFO to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: i2c-xiic-must-always-write-16-bit-words-to-tx_fifo.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c39e8e4354ce4daf23336de5daa28a3b01f00aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven A. Falco" <sfalco@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:34:39 +0000 Subject: i2c: xiic: must always write 16-bit words to TX_FIFO From: "Steven A. Falco" <sfalco@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c39e8e4354ce4daf23336de5daa28a3b01f00aa6 upstream. The TX_FIFO register is 10 bits wide. The lower 8 bits are the data to be written, while the upper two bits are flags to indicate stop/start. The driver apparently attempted to optimize write access, by only writing a byte in those cases where the stop/start bits are zero. However, we have seen cases where the lower byte is duplicated onto the upper byte by the hardware, which causes inadvertent stop/starts. This patch changes the write access to the transmit FIFO to always be 16 bits wide. Signed off by: Steven A. Falco <sfalco@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c @@ -311,10 +311,8 @@ static void xiic_fill_tx_fifo(struct xii /* last message in transfer -> STOP */ data |= XIIC_TX_DYN_STOP_MASK; dev_dbg(i2c->adap.dev.parent, "%s TX STOP\n", __func__); - - xiic_setreg16(i2c, XIIC_DTR_REG_OFFSET, data); - } else - xiic_setreg8(i2c, XIIC_DTR_REG_OFFSET, data); + } + xiic_setreg16(i2c, XIIC_DTR_REG_OFFSET, data); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sfalco@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.0/i2c-xiic-must-always-write-16-bit-words-to-tx_fifo.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html