Hi Steve,

On Saturday 24 September 2011 15:44:52 Steve Sakoman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart
> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think that Sakari's patches correcty fix the problems he noticed.
> > However, they won't fix one basic issue, which is that the iommu2 module
> > won't be automatically pulled in when the omap3isp module is loaded. The
> > omap3isp driver will then fail to probe the device. That's better than
> > crashing though.
> > 
> > One possible solution for that is to turn the tristate option for iommu2
> > into a bool option. I've also read a couple of times that the kernel
> > provides a standard iommu API. Maybe switching to it would help.
> 
> I'm attempting to get support for the Gumstix Caspa image sensor
> (based on mt9v032) working with the 3.0 release.
> 
> I'm running into the issue described above -- the omap3-isp module
> loads but fails to probe the device.
> 
> I've tried the tristate->bool option change and find that it does
> allow me to proceed further, but the omap3-isp module is no longer
> loaded automatically when I call omap3_init_camera in the board file.

That's weird, it should if udev is setup properly.

> I have to manually modprobe it. I then see the sensor module
> successfully probed and the video devices created (though not
> functioning yet).
> 
> Are you aware of a better way to do this?  I see lots of patches for
> iommu since this thread.  Would I be better off waiting for 3.1 and
> trying that, or will final resolution of this issue come even later?

The tristate -> bool change (which will likely be part of a much bigger change 
set) will come later.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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