linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data

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Message-ID: <20160314092809.GC1383@katana>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:28:10 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data


> This doesn't work. I see a number of these WARN_ON()s trigger and I
> think the reason is that i2c_init() always fails now. The cause seems to
> be that i2c_init() calls i2c_add_driver(&dummy_driver), which will now
> always fail, because is_register is set to true *after* that call. There
> is no way I see I2C working at all after this patch.

Same conclusion here. Too much trust applied to the original patch, mea
culpa and sorry! Will send the fixup (tested!) in a minute.


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