[PATCH 3/5] i2c: aspeed: fix master pending state handling

[Brendan Higgins]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 2:13 PM Jae Hyun Yoo
<jae.hyun.yoo at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/8/2019 1:31 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:13:11PM -0700, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote:
> >> In case of master pending state, it should not trigger the master
> >> command because this H/W is sharing the same data buffer for slave
> >> and master operations, so this commit fixes the issue with making
> >> the master command triggering happen when the state goes to active
> >> state.
> >
> > nit: Makes sense, but can you explain what might happen without your
> > change?
>
> If we don't use this fix, a master command could corrupt data in the
> shared buffer if H/W is still on processing slave operation at the
> timing.

Right, can you add that to the commit message?

Is this trivially reproducible? We might want to submit this
separately as a bugfix.

Actually yeah, can you send this separately as a bugfix? I think we
might want to include this in 5.4.

Wolfram and Joel, what do you think?