It wasn't compiled in by default. I suspect that the driver was and
still is broken, though -- it's calling udelay with a parameter
that's derived from loops_per_jiffy.
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c | 63 ++------------------------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c
index dc7984455c3a..465796a686c4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c
@@ -327,9 +327,6 @@ static void safe_udelay(unsigned long usecs)
* time
*/
-/* So send_pulse can quickly convert microseconds to clocks */
-static unsigned long conv_us_to_clocks;
-
static int init_timing_params(unsigned int new_duty_cycle,
unsigned int new_freq)
{
@@ -344,7 +341,6 @@ static int init_timing_params(unsigned int new_duty_cycle,
/* How many clocks in a microsecond?, avoiding long long divide */
work = loops_per_sec;
work *= 4295; /* 4295 = 2^32 / 1e6 */
- conv_us_to_clocks = work >> 32;
/*
* Carrier period in clocks, approach good up to 32GHz clock,
@@ -357,10 +353,9 @@ static int init_timing_params(unsigned int new_duty_cycle,
pulse_width = period * duty_cycle / 100;
space_width = period - pulse_width;
dprintk("in init_timing_params, freq=%d, duty_cycle=%d, "
- "clk/jiffy=%ld, pulse=%ld, space=%ld, "
- "conv_us_to_clocks=%ld\n",
+ "clk/jiffy=%ld, pulse=%ld, space=%ld\n",
freq, duty_cycle, __this_cpu_read(cpu_info.loops_per_jiffy),
- pulse_width, space_width, conv_us_to_clocks);
+ pulse_width, space_width);
return 0;
}
#else /* ! USE_RDTSC */
@@ -431,63 +426,14 @@ static long send_pulse_irdeo(unsigned long length)
return ret;
}
-#ifdef USE_RDTSC
-/* Version that uses Pentium rdtsc instruction to measure clocks */
-
-/*
- * This version does sub-microsecond timing using rdtsc instruction,
- * and does away with the fudged LIRC_SERIAL_TRANSMITTER_LATENCY
- * Implicitly i586 architecture... - Steve
- */
-
-static long send_pulse_homebrew_softcarrier(unsigned long length)
-{
- int flag;
- unsigned long target, start, now;
-
- /* Get going quick as we can */
- rdtscl(start);
- on();
- /* Convert length from microseconds to clocks */
- length *= conv_us_to_clocks;
- /* And loop till time is up - flipping at right intervals */
- now = start;
- target = pulse_width;
- flag = 1;
- /*
- * FIXME: This looks like a hard busy wait, without even an occasional,
- * polite, cpu_relax() call. There's got to be a better way?
- *
- * The i2c code has the result of a lot of bit-banging work, I wonder if
- * there's something there which could be helpful here.
- */
- while ((now - start) < length) {
- /* Delay till flip time */
- do {
- rdtscl(now);
- } while ((now - start) < target);
-
- /* flip */
- if (flag) {
- rdtscl(now);
- off();
- target += space_width;
- } else {
- rdtscl(now); on();
- target += pulse_width;
- }
- flag = !flag;
- }
- rdtscl(now);
- return ((now - start) - length) / conv_us_to_clocks;
-}
-#else /* ! USE_RDTSC */
/* Version using udelay() */
/*
* here we use fixed point arithmetic, with 8
* fractional bits. that gets us within 0.1% or so of the right average
* frequency, albeit with some jitter in pulse length - Steve
+ *
+ * This should use ndelay instead.
*/
/* To match 8 fractional bits used for pulse/space length */
@@ -520,7 +466,6 @@ static long send_pulse_homebrew_softcarrier(unsigned long length)
}
return (actual-length) >> 8;
}
-#endif /* USE_RDTSC */
static long send_pulse_homebrew(unsigned long length)
{
--
2.4.2
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