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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:37:18 +0800
From:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Cc:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
	Yufeng Shen <miletus@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7 v6] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use INDEX cycles for i2c read transactions

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:26:37 +0800, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org> wrote:
>> It is very common for an i2c device to require a small 1 or 2 byte write
>> followed by a read.  For example, when reading from an i2c EEPROM it is
>> common to write and address, offset or index followed by a reading some
>> values.
>
> Hmm, I have
>
> "gmbus1, bits 8-15: 8-bit GMBUS slave register
> This field is redundant and should not be used."
>
> Scary. :)

Perhaps INDEX ops are only available on some chipsets?
Is this something you can double check?

>
> Otherwise, the code itself looks correct and quite neatly done now.
> -Chris
>
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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