Some devices need much more time than 100ms to power on, leading to a
failure to enable the frontend on the first attempt. Instead we get
[ 38.194200] saa7146: register extension 'budget_av'.
[ 38.253828] budget_av 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ
17
[ 38.601572] saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem ffffc90000c6ac00 (revision 1, irq
17) (0x1894,0x0022).
[ 39.251324] saa7146 (0): dma buffer size 1347584
[ 39.306757] DVB: registering new adapter (KNC1 DVB-C MK3)
[ 39.462785] adapter failed MAC signature check
[ 39.516159] encoded MAC from EEPROM was
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 39.892397] KNC1-0: MAC addr = 00:09:d6:6d:94:5c
[ 40.552028] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.580044] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.608026] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.636027] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.652026] DVB: TDA10023(-1): tda10023_writereg, writereg error (reg ==
0x00, val == 0x33, ret == -5)
[ 40.664027] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.692027] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.720027] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.748027] saa7146 (0) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for
end of xfer
[ 40.764025] DVB: TDA10023(-1): tda10023_readreg: readreg error (reg == 0x1a,
ret == -5)
[ 40.764067] budget-av: A frontend driver was not found for device
[1131:7146] subsystem [1894:0022]
Unloading and the reloading the driver will work around this problem. But
it can also be easily fixed by increasing the wait period after powering
on. The optimum value is unclear to me. But I've found the 500 ms is not
enough. 5 s is enough for my card, but might be more than actually needed.
However, as long as we don't handle this failure more gracefully, then the
timeout need to be long enough.
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no>
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
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Hello,
I have recently bought a KNC1 clone, called Mystique CaBiX-C2. This card
would just not work on reboot in my system, giving the errors shown above.
Unloading the module and then loading it again always fixed the problem,
indicating that it was just a startup timing problem.
As you can see, the i2c timeouts are from the frontend attach function,
tda10023_attach():
/* wakeup if in standby */
tda10023_writereg (state, 0x00, 0x33);
/* check if the demod is there */
if ((tda10023_readreg(state, 0x1a) & 0xf0) != 0x70) goto error;
cleary showing that it just isn't responding yet at that point.
I first tried increasing the msleep() to 500 ms, but still got the same
error. Increasing it to 5000 ms helped, however, and made my card work
from boot. I have not tried any values inbetween, as each attempt AFAIK
requires a reboot to get the card into the "cold state" where it will
fail.
dmesg with the patch installed:
[ 37.786955] saa7146: register extension 'budget_av'.
[ 37.846592] budget_av 0000:05:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ
17
[ 37.933318] saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem ffffc90000c70c00 (revision 1, irq
17) (0x1894,0x0022).
[ 38.037851] saa7146 (0): dma buffer size 1347584
[ 38.093224] DVB: registering new adapter (KNC1 DVB-C MK3)
[ 38.194254] adapter failed MAC signature check
[ 38.247527] encoded MAC from EEPROM was
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 38.622678] KNC1-0: MAC addr = 00:09:d6:6d:94:5c
[ 43.765897] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Philips TDA10023 DVB-C)...
[ 43.851587] budget-av: ci interface initialised.
Please consider this patch. Or maybe it is possible to wait smarter,
testing actual frontend power status instead of just a blind sleep?
I've also included a CC stable as I've had the same problem with the 2.6.32
and 2.6.33 stable drivers.
Bjørn
drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c
b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c
index 983672a..b53bd80 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget-av.c
@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ static void frontend_init(struct budget_av *budget_av)
saa7146_setgpio(saa, 0, SAA7146_GPIO_OUTLO);
/* Wait for PowerON */
- msleep(100);
+ msleep(5000);
/* additional setup necessary for the PLUS cards */
switch (saa->pci->subsystem_device) {
--
1.5.6.5
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