[PATCH] I2C: 24RF08 corruption prevention (again)

The 24RF08 corruption prevention in the eeprom and max6875 drivers wasn't
complete. For one thing, the additional quick write should happen as soon
as possible and unconditionally, while both drivers had error paths before.
For another, when a given chip is forced, the core does not emit a quick
write, so a second quick write would cause the corruption rather than
prevent it.

I plan to move the corruption prevention in the core in the long run, so
that individual drivers don't have to care anymore. But I need to merge
i2c_probe and i2c_detect before I do (work in progress).

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c
index c4f14d9623c4..0230375f72e5 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c
@@ -343,6 +343,11 @@ static int max6875_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address, int kind)
         struct max6875_data *data;
         int err = 0;
 
+        /* Prevent 24RF08 corruption (in case of user error) */
+        if (kind < 0)
+                i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, address, 0, 0, 0,
+                               I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL);
+
         /* There are three ways we can read the EEPROM data:
            (1) I2C block reads (faster, but unsupported by most adapters)
            (2) Consecutive byte reads (100% overhead)
@@ -370,9 +375,6 @@ static int max6875_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address, int kind)
         new_client->driver = &max6875_driver;
         new_client->flags = 0;
 
-        /* Prevent 24RF08 corruption */
-        i2c_smbus_write_quick(new_client, 0);
-
         /* Setup the user section */
         data->blocks[max6875_eeprom_user].type    = max6875_eeprom_user;
         data->blocks[max6875_eeprom_user].slices  = USER_EEPROM_SLICES;