Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:15:04 +0100 | From | Wolfram Sang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] eeprom: at24: Add support for large EEPROMs connected to SMBus adapters |
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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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