Re: [PATCH V1 2/2] i2c: tegra: support for I2C_M_NOSTART protocol mangling

[Laxman Dewangan]

On Thursday 10 May 2012 05:24 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Laxman,
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2012 16:54:53 +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > Jean,
> > On Tuesday 24 April 2012 12:49 PM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > > Adding support for protocol mangling I2C_M_NOSTART.
> > > When multiple message transfer request made through i2c
> > > and if any message is flagged with I2C_M_NOSTART then
> > > it will not send the start/repeat start/address of that
> > > message i.e. send the data directly.
> > Now the framework/core changes for making M_NOSTART as a separate flag
> > is already part of your tree.
> > So do I need to re-send the patch for having that change?
> > 1/1 is already part of Wolfram's tree and so not sure that how do I go
> > i.e. from where I take the base i2c-tegra driver.
> > It may create the problem in integration on main if they are not sync.
> > Also I have some couple of changes which will be on top of this.
> I'm not sure I read you correctly so, for clarity: the patch
> introducing I2C_FUNC_NOSTART finally landed in my tree [1], not
> Wolfram's. It will be merged in kernel 3.5.
>
> [1] http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/linux-3/jdelvare-i2c/
>
> If you don't want to depend on that, then just use
> I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING for now and you can switch to
> I2C_FUNC_NOSTART later.
It is fine. So this change can go in to Wolfram's tree as it is and 
after k3.5, I will post another change which will use I2C_FUNC_NOSTART.

Thanks,
Laxman

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