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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:47:34 +0200
From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] viafb: rework the I2C support in the VIA framebuffer
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Florian Tobias Schandinat schrieb:
> Jonathan Corbet schrieb:
>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:40:39 +0200
>> Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Meanwhile, I'm a little unsure now...is there an action item for me
>> with regard to the i2c code?  I've been staring at it since your last
>> note, but I couldn't find any obvious problems.  I do have to say that
>> Harald's rework is far cleaner than what came before...
> 
> Well the main question is probably:
> How does it change the behaviour towards the hardware?
> I tend to think that OLPC might not be the only ones who did something 
> weird with it....and we already know that we shouldn't trust the 
> documentation too much.

I was able to narrow this issue down to the fourth bus. So with
if (i == 4)
	continue;
in the bus creation loop I'm able to get a working framebuffer which 
does not have the issues mentioned. Any ideas what should be done now?


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat

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