[i2c] [patch 2.6.24-rc1-git] i2c-algo-bit, don't yield()

[Jean Delvare]

Hi David,

First of all, please first send an update to the other i2c-algo-bit
patch you posted:
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/i2c/2007-October/002018.html
Discussing patches is good but at some point you have to get them ready
for submission, otherwise things pile up and we don't progress much.

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:38:35 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> Don't use yield().  It can have nasty scheduling properties; and in any
> case this code could be interrupted or otherwise preempted at any time.

Can you please be more specific? I can't see any problem here. We're
between two I2C transactions, how could being rescheduled be an issue?

> This address retry mechanism should be removed from the I2C stack at some
> point.  Meanwhile, there's no point in having its primary implementation
> misbehave.

Well, I seem to remember we agreed on that and nobody objected, so
rather than trying to fix this code, what about sending a patch that
rips the whole thing off?

> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a.orig/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c	2007-09-05 09:08:53.000000000 -0700
> +++ a/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c	2007-09-05 12:01:35.000000000 -0700
> @@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ static int try_address(struct i2c_adapte
>  		bit_dbg(3, &i2c_adap->dev, "emitting stop condition\n");
>  		i2c_stop(adap);
>  		udelay(adap->udelay);
> -		yield();
>  		bit_dbg(3, &i2c_adap->dev, "emitting start condition\n");
>  		i2c_start(adap);
>  	}

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare