Hi Lennert,

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:20:59 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:05PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > From: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
> > Subject: i2c: Adapter timeout is in jiffies
> > 
> > i2c_adapter.timeout is in jiffies. Fix all drivers which thought
> > otherwise. It didn't really matter as long as the value was only used
> > inside the driver, but soon i2c-core will use it too so it must have
> > the proper unit.
> > 
> > Note: for the i2c-mpc driver, this fixes a bug in polling mode.
> > Timeout would trigger after 1 jiffy, which is most probably not what
> > the author wanted.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Clifford Wolf <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Sean MacLennan <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Stefan Roese <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Mark A. Greer <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ibm_iic.c |    6 +++---
> >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-iop3xx.c  |    2 +-
> >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c     |    4 ++--
> >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c |    7 +++----
> >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pca-isa.c |    2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> The i2c-mv64xxx part:
> 
> Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <[email protected]>

Thanks.

> Although I wonder if we shouldn't move away from expressing time
> intervals in jiffies.

Why? This is what time_after() and wait_event_interruptible_timeout()
want, so this is the most efficient way (as discussed recently [1]).

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-i2c&m=123507862624484&w=2

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Jean Delvare
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