[i2c] [PATCH] Add a new-style driver for most I2C EEPROMs

[Wolfram Sang]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:07:51AM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:

> So the loop tries the write for the first time, fails (which is perfectly
> acceptable), then sleeps for more than timeout jiffies.  The timeout
> expires and the write is never tried again.
Ehrm, the conditions for the while loop are OR-ed not AND-ed. So, even if
time_before changes to false, 'retries < 3' will keep the loop running.
I think this minimum of three tries will also cover the other issues you
(correctly) mentioned.

   Wolfram

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