diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3fc928da1b3c..58ca860c7559 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d47726c52122d64253ae56e0fafdb7d0b954e97c
+refs/heads/master: 72fc2c7f78b0c365454e60ad33b0e74aea43e3ab
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index 361978a8485a..26488aa893d5 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -2140,11 +2140,17 @@ s32 i2c_smbus_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, u16 addr, unsigned short flags,
 				break;
 		}
 		i2c_unlock_adapter(adapter);
-	} else
-		res = i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated(adapter, addr, flags, read_write,
-					      command, protocol, data);
 
-	return res;
+		if (res != -EOPNOTSUPP || !adapter->algo->master_xfer)
+			return res;
+		/*
+		 * Fall back to i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated if the adapter doesn't
+		 * implement native support for the SMBus operation.
+		 */
+	}
+
+	return i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated(adapter, addr, flags, read_write,
+				       command, protocol, data);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_smbus_xfer);