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    [PATCH] I2C: Rewrite i2c_probe · a89ba0bc
    Jean Delvare authored
    i2c_probe was quite complex and slow, so I rewrote it in a more
    efficient and hopefully clearer way.
    
    Note that this slightly changes the way the module parameters are
    handled. This shouldn't change anything for the most common cases
    though.
    
    For one thing, the function now respects the order of the parameters
    for address probing. It used to always do lower addresses first. The
    new approach gives the user more control.
    
    For another, ignore addresses don't overrule probe addresses anymore.
    This could have been restored the way it was at the cost of a few more
    lines of code, but I don't think it's worth it. Both lists are given
    as module parameters, so a user would be quite silly to specify the
    same addresses in both lists. The normal addresses list is the only
    one that isn't controlled by a module parameter, thus is the only one
    the user may reasonably want to remove an address from.
    
    Another significant change is the fact that i2c_probe() will no more
    stop when a detection function returns -ENODEV. Just because a driver
    found a chip it doesn't support isn't a valid reason to stop all
    probings for this one driver. This closes the long standing lm_sensors
    ticket #1807.
    
      http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1807
    
    I updated the documentation accordingly.
    
    In terms of algorithmic complexity, the new code is way better. If
    I is the ignore address count, P the probe address count, N the
    normal address count and F the force address count, the old code
    was doing 128 * (F + I + P + N) iterations max, while the new code
    does F + P + ((I+1) * N) iterations max. For the most common case
    where F, I and P are empty, this is down from 128 * N to N.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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