Em Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:43:10 -0500 Devin Heitmueller <dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com> escreveu:
> 2013/3/5 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com>: > > The em2874 chips and upper have 2 buses. On all known devices, bus 0 is > > currently used only by eeprom, and bus 1 for the rest. Add support to > > register both buses. > > Did you add a mutex to ensure that both buses cannot be used at the > same time? Because using the bus requires you to toggle a register > (thus you cannot be using both busses at the same time), you cannot > rely on the existing i2c adapter lock anymore. > > You don't want a situation where something is actively talking on bus > 0, and then something else tries to talk on bus 1, flips the register > bit and then the thread talking on bus 0 starts failing. Good point. The I2C mutex won't solve for this case. I'll add a mutex there at the xfer function on a separate patch. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
