Am 26.03.2017 um 12:34 schrieb Daniel Scheller: > Am Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:03:33 +0200 > schrieb Matthias Schwarzott <z...@gentoo.org>: > >> Am 24.03.2017 um 19:23 schrieb Daniel Scheller: >>> From: Daniel Scheller <d.schel...@gmx.net> >>> >>> Some hardware and bridges (namely ddbridge) require that tuner >>> access is limited to one concurrent access and wrap i2c gate >>> control with a mutex_lock when attaching frontends. According to >>> vendor information, this is required as concurrent tuner >>> reconfiguration can interfere each other and at worst cause tuning >>> fails or bad reception quality. >>> >>> If the demod driver does gate_ctrl before setting up tuner >>> parameters, and the tuner does another I2C enable, it will deadlock >>> forever when gate_ctrl is wrapped into the mutex_lock. This adds a >>> flag and a conditional before triggering gate_ctrl in the >>> demodulator driver. >> >> If I get this right, the complete call to i2c_gate_ctrl should be >> disabled. Why not just overwrite the function-pointer i2c_gate_ctrl >> with NULL in the relevant attach function (stv0367ddb_attach) or not >> define it in stv0367ddb_ops? > > This will make communication with the TDA18212 tuner chip impossible. > We need to open stv0367's I2C gate, thus need the function. But for the > overall hardware case, concurrent tuner reconfiguration must be avoided > due to the mentioned issues, thus after _attach the bridge driver > remaps the function pointer to wrap i2c_gate_ctrl with a lock to > accomplish this - see [1] and [2]. As the demod AND the tuner driver > both open the I2C gate, this will lead to a dead lock. To not change or > break existing behaviour with other cards and tuner drivers, this > (flag, conditional) appears to be the best option.
Ok, I understand: The real problem is that both demod driver (around tuner access) and tuner driver care about the i2c_gate. Regards Matthias
