Messages in this thread | | | From | Chris Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7 v6] drm/i915/intel_i2c: handle zero-length writes | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:34:17 +0100 |
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:26:33 +0800, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org> wrote: > A common method of probing an i2c bus is trying to do a zero-length write. > Handle this case by checking the length first before decrementing it. > > This is actually important, since attempting a zero-length write is one > of the ways that i2cdetect and i2c_new_probed_device detect whether > there is device present on the bus with a given address. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> -Chris
-- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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