Re: [PATCH] i2c-pnx: fix setting start/stop condition

[Vitaly Wool]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Luotao Fu <l.fu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The start/stop condtions are set in different places repetedly in the i2c-pnx
> driver.  Beside in i2c_pnx_start and i2c_pnx_stop the start/stop bit are also
> set during the transfer of a i2c message in the master_xmit/rcv calls. This is
> wrong since we can't set the start/stop condition during the transaction of a
> single message any way. As a matter of fact, the driver will sometimes set both
> the start and the stop bits at one time. This can be easily reproduced by
> sending a simple read request like e.g
> struct i2c_msg msgs[] = {
> { addr, 0, 1, buf },
> { addr, I2C_M_RD, offset, buf }
> };
> While processing the first message the i2c_pnx_master_xmit will set both the
> start_bit and the stop_bit, which will eventually confuse the slave.
>
> Fixed by remove setting start/stop condition from the transmit routines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luotao Fu <l.fu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@xxxxxxxxx>
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