[PATCH] ALI1563 SMBus driver fix
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Tue Apr 12 17:55:47 CEST 2005
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 08:17:12AM -0000, R.Marek at sh.cvut.cz wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Following patch contains fixies to "grave" errors of ALI1563 SMBus driver.
> It removes checking for HST_STS_DONE bit, because this bit is raised
> only after finishing for block transfers in newer chips revisions.
> Then it fixes missing "and" mask for transfer type settings. And to third it fixes
> the "continous byte mode" transaction, because command is not transfered
> in command register but in DAT0 register. Last thing it changes is error
> recovery and error messages. All was successfully tested with help
> of Chunhao Huang from Winbond.
>
> I added my name to source because now I feel quite familiar with the chip. :)
Did you email Pat Mochel about these changes to make sure nothing breaks
on his hardware?
Also, I need a Signed-off-by: line (as the file
Documentation/SubmittingPatches states).
> diff -Naur a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1563.c c/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1563.c
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1563.c 2005-03-09 09:13:19.000000000 +0100
> +++ c/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1563.c 2005-04-08 21:55:19.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/**
> +/*
> * i2c-ali1563.c - i2c driver for the ALi 1563 Southbridge
> *
> * Copyright (C) 2004 Patrick Mochel
> @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
> * with a little help from the ALi 1563 spec.
> *
> * This file is released under the GPLv2
> + *
> + * 2005-04-08: Fixed SMBus mode setting, fixed byte data transactions
> + * Rudolf Marek <r.marek at sh.cvut.cz>
> */
Please do not add change log information to a .c file, it is not needed,
and only gets old and stale.
thanks,
greg k-h
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