linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/9] docs: i2c: i2c-topology: reorder sections more logically

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Date:   Tue, 9 Aug 2022 09:08:03 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     luca.ceresoli@...tlin.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] docs: i2c: i2c-topology: reorder sections more
 logically

On 8/8/22 21:17, luca.ceresoli@...tlin.com wrote:
> +Mux-locked caveats
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +When using a mux-locked mux, be aware of the following restrictions:
> +
> +* If you build a topology with a mux-locked mux being the parent
> +  of a parent-locked mux, this might break the expectation from the
> +  parent-locked mux that the root adapter is locked during the
> +  transaction.
> +
> +* It is not safe to build arbitrary topologies with two (or more)
> +  mux-locked muxes that are not siblings, when there are address
> +  collisions between the devices on the child adapters of these
> +  non-sibling muxes.
> +
> +  I.e. the select-transfer-deselect transaction targeting e.g. device
> +  address 0x42 behind mux-one may be interleaved with a similar
> +  operation targeting device address 0x42 behind mux-two. The
> +  intension with such a topology would in this hypothetical example
> +  be that mux-one and mux-two should not be selected simultaneously,
> +  but mux-locked muxes do not guarantee that in all topologies.
> +

These two sentences in n. 2) can be combined into a single paragraph.
Also, did you mean s/intension/intention/?

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