---

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---
r: 7183
b: refs/heads/master
c: 4c9337d
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  7181: 5cf781d
  7179: 9c623ed
  7175: 2961cbe
  7167: 4561ccd
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a89ba0bc02e82920a0f4137aa5d655ac0366cc28
+refs/heads/master: 4c9337da37c877e53a64696fc8524f642d446cba

trunk/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients

@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ Technical changes:
   device_create_file. Move the driver initialization before any
   sysfs file creation.
   Drop client->id.
+  Drop any 24RF08 corruption prevention you find, as this is now done
+  at the i2c-core level, and doing it twice voids it.
 
 * [Init] Limits must not be set by the driver (can be done later in
   user-space). Chip should not be reset default (although a module

trunk/drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.c

@@ -161,11 +161,6 @@ int eeprom_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address, int kind)
 	struct eeprom_data *data;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	/* prevent 24RF08 corruption */
-	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)

trunk/drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c

@@ -171,11 +171,6 @@ 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);
-
 	if (!i2c_check_functionality(adapter, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE_DATA
 				     | I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE))
 		return 0;

trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c

@@ -679,9 +679,16 @@ static int i2c_probe_address(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int addr, int kind,
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Make sure there is something at this address, unless forced */
-	if (kind < 0
-	 && i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, addr, 0, 0, 0, I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL) < 0)
-		return 0;
+	if (kind < 0) {
+		if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, addr, 0, 0, 0,
+				   I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL) < 0)
+			return 0;
+
+		/* prevent 24RF08 corruption */
+		if ((addr & ~0x0f) == 0x50)
+			i2c_smbus_xfer(adapter, addr, 0, 0, 0,
+				       I2C_SMBUS_QUICK, NULL);
+	}
 
 	/* Finally call the custom detection function */
 	err = found_proc(adapter, addr, kind);