linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] i2c: iproc: Add i2c repeated start capability

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Message-ID: <20190924185757.GA1538@kunai>
Date:   Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:57:57 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com>
Cc:     Rayagonda Kokatanur <rayagonda.kokatanur@...adcom.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Lori Hikichi <lori.hikichi@...adcom.com>,
        Icarus Chau <icarus.chau@...adcom.com>,
        Shivaraj Shetty <sshetty1@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] i2c: iproc: Add i2c repeated start capability


> In my opinion, it's probably better to continue to support master_xfer in
> our driver (with obvious limitations), in order to allow i2ctransfer (or any
> apps that use I2C RDWR) to continue to work.
> 
> What do you think?

Yes, don't break it for users. We should have paid more attention to it
in the beginning. But, while not ideal, it is not such a big deal to
keep it like this.

Thanks for your investigations!


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