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SubjectRe: [PATCH] eeprom: at24: Add support for large EEPROMs connected to SMBus adapters
Guenter,

thanks for the update

> Ultimately, the real problem is how i2c-dev accesses a client, not how
> i2c client drivers (who assume they have exclusive access to a chip)
> handle multi-command sequences. Forcing extensive locking on all drivers
> because of i2c-dev just doesn't seem to be the right thing to do.

I agree. i2c-dev is too much of a special case.

And since at24 has its own lock (I missed that), your patch might as
well be good enough to be applied, I'd think.

Thanks for this work!

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