Calling wait_event_interruptible_timeout() in I2C wait functions

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Fri Feb 6 02:18:04 EST 2009


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk> wrote:

> This is exactly the problem for users that caused Timur to run into this
> - further up the stack we're trying to do cleanup that involves writing
> via I2C but the I2C writes error out due to the signal.

Well, there's not much discussion on this issue, so I'm going to make
the change to an uninterruptible wait and see if it fixes my problem.
If so, I'll post a patch for i2c-mpc.c and see how far I get.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale



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