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Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:28:47 +0100
From:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	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 4/8 v7] drm/i915/intel_i2c: use WAIT cycle, not STOP

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:16:45 +0800, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
> > - Chris Wilson suggested on irc that we should wait for HW_READY even for
> >  zero-length writes (and also reads), currently we don't.
> 
> I don't think so.  We just need to wait for (GMBUS_SATOER |
> GMBUS_HW_WAIT_PHASE).
> Why would we wait for HW_READY, too?

Just paranoia when looking at the read/write sequences and wondering how
safe they were with 0-length read/writes. No real reason to suspect that
the code is incorrect in any way.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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