Subject: Re: Shared i2c adapter locking

From: Jean Delvare <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:07:15 +0100

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:57:24 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:11 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> [...]
> > What about the following patch?
> > 
> > From: Jean Delvare <[email-masked]>
> > Subject: i2c: Add an interface to lock/unlock I2C bus segment
> > 
> > Some drivers need to be able to prevent access to an I2C bus segment
> > for a specific period of time. Add an interface for them to do so
> > without twiddling with i2c-core internals.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings-s/n/[email-masked]>
> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings-s/n/[email-masked]>
> 
> Presumably this is meant for net-next-2.6, and you'll implement

Actually I meant to push this to Linus immediately, through my i2c
tree. This is essentially a no-op: the binary code will be the same as
before the patch, so guaranteed to be safe, and this will solve
conflicts in linux-next.

> i2c_{lock,unlock}_adapter() using rt_mutex in your i2c tree?

Correct.

-- 
Jean Delvare