linux-kernel - Re: I2C: Fix i2c fail problem when a process is terminated by a signal on octeon in 3.8

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Message-ID: <20130226110740.GA3962@katana>
Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:07:47 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	송은봉 <eunb.song@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Ben Dooks (embedded platforms)" <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I2C: Fix i2c fail problem when a process is terminated by a
 signal on octeon  in 3.8

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:02:17AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, 송은봉 wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I've been debugging the abnormal operation of i2c on octeon.
> > If a process is terminated by signal in the middle of i2c operation,
> > next i2c read operation which is done by another process was failed.
> > So i changed to ignore signal in the middle of i2c operation.
> > After that the problem was not reproduced.
> 
> This is not really material directly for trivial.git. Adding maintainers 
> to CC.

Yes, this should not go via trivial. Please resend to i2c list. Patch
looks okay from a glimpse (and fixes an issue we have seen before and
fixed the same way).

Thanks,

   Wolfram

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