linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.2 073/110] i2c: mv64xxx: really allow I2C offloading

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Date:	Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:26:09 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, Hezi Shahmoon <hezi@...vell.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.2 073/110] i2c: mv64xxx: really allow I2C offloading

On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 11:19 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Hezi Shahmoon <hezi@...vell.com>
> 
> commit 0729a04977d497cf66234fd7f900ddcec3ef1c52 upstream.
> 
> Commit 00d8689b85a7 ("i2c: mv64xxx: rework offload support to fix
> several problems") completely reworked the offload support, but left a
> debugging-related "return false" at the beginning of the
> mv64xxx_i2c_can_offload() function. This has the unfortunate consequence
> that offloading is in fact never used, which wasn't really the
> intention.
> 
> This commit fixes that problem by removing the bogus "return false".

This looks like enabling a feature rather than fixing a bug.  As it's
not a critical feature, this doesn't seem suitable for stable.

Ben.

> Fixes: 00d8689b85a7 ("i2c: mv64xxx: rework offload support to fix several problems")
> Signed-off-by: Hezi Shahmoon <hezi@...vell.com>
> [Thomas: reworked commit log and title.]
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c
> @@ -669,8 +669,6 @@ mv64xxx_i2c_can_offload(struct mv64xxx_i
>  > 	> struct i2c_msg *msgs = drv_data->msgs;
>  > 	> int num = drv_data->num_msgs;
>  
> -> 	> return false;
> -
>  > 	> if (!drv_data->offload_enabled)
>  > 	> 	> return false;
>  
> 
> 
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