Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:12:00 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, i2c@lm-sensors.org, khali@linux-fr.org,
       adrian@humboldt.co.uk, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
       Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Incremental i2c-mpc driver fix for multi-master i2c
 busses.
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:21:02 +0100
Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at> wrote:

> Incremental i2c-mpc driver fix for multi-master i2c busses.
> 
> This is an incremental bugfix for the i2c-mpc driver. It is based
> on the bugfix I've sent on 2008-12-22:
> 
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/22/99
> 
> There still was a remaining problem with multi-master i2c busses
> when an i2c bus access is interrupted by a unix signal while
> waiting for bus arbitration.
> 
> This is an extreamly rare case but I managed to stumble over it in
> multi master i2c performance tests.
> 
> Tested with a freescale MPC8349E host cpu.

That's not a very good changelog - it has basically no information,
apart from the linked-to original changelog.

And the linked-to changelog has no description of the bug which is
being fixed.

> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c	(revision 2216)
> +++ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c	(working copy)

Please prepare patches in `patch -p1' form:

--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
+++ a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c

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