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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:12:19 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: cope with large i2c transfers
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> The hardware, according to the specs, is limited to 256 byte transfers,
> and current driver has no protections in case users attempt to do larger
> transfers. The code will just stomp over status register and mayhem
> ensues.

Thanks, looks good.

David/Daniel - should I take this directly, or can I expect to just
get it from the drm tree?

              Linus
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