[PATCH 3/4] drm/dp/i2c: Update comments about common i2c over dp assumptions

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 10:52:05 PDT 2014


If you are using the common dp over i2c functionality, it is
asumed that the aux transfer function does not modify the any
of the msg structure other than the reply field.  Doing so
breaks the logic in the common code.

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
index 125f84d..7a8c091 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c
@@ -577,7 +577,9 @@ static u32 drm_dp_i2c_functionality(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
 
 /*
  * Transfer a single I2C-over-AUX message and handle various error conditions,
- * retrying the transaction as appropriate.
+ * retrying the transaction as appropriate.  It is assumed that the
+ * aux->transfer function does not modify anything in the msg other than the
+ * reply field.
  */
 static int drm_dp_i2c_do_msg(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, struct drm_dp_aux_msg *msg)
 {
-- 
1.8.3.1



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