Hi Ben,
So I2C core does protect multiple access to one adapter, but I2C core
does not protect the case where multiple adapters share the same underlying
device. GMBUS has 7 different pin pairs and each pair is registered as an I2C
adapter. I2C core can serialize the access to one pin pair, say t
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Yufeng Shen wrote:
> GMBUS has several ports and each has it's own corresponding
> I2C adpater. When multiple I2C adapters call gmbus_xfer() at
> the same time there is a race condition in using the underlying
> GMBUS controller. Fixing this by adding a mut
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Yufeng Shen wrote:
> GMBUS has several ports and each has it's own corresponding
> I2C adpater. When multiple I2C adapters call gmbus_xfer() at
> the same time there is a race condition in using the underlying
> GMBUS controller. Fixing this by adding a mut
