[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 8/9] tegra: i2c: Enable new CONFIG_SYS_I2C framework

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Aug 5 22:12:33 CEST 2013


Hi Stephen,


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>wrote:

> On 08/05/2013 09:40 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> ...
> > Yes I think we should fix the problem properly rather than just revert.
> > I will take a look.
>
> How long will fixing it properly take?
>

I expect to have a patch tomorrow.


>
> I've already received at least a couple reports from people outside
> NVIDIA and a couple from people inside NVIDIA who have been hit by this
> bug. Surely a revert-first-so-people-can-do-other-work approach is
> better so as to reduce the impact of this bug, unless you're planning on
> providing the fix in the same time-scale as a revert would take? (and
> the window on doing that has *long* gone). This is certainly the
> approach we use internally at NVIDIA for serious regressions like this.
> Reverting the revert once the real fix is available is trivial with git.
>

Fair enough. My concern is that the I2C refactor has been a long time
coming and it would be nice if it could stick :-)

How about a revert tomorrow if I don't come up with some sort of patch?

Regards,
Simon


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