Re: PxDVR3200 H LinuxTV v4l-dvb patch : Pull GPIO-20 low for DVB-T

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On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:33 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:39 +0800, Terry Wu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>     I add the following codes in the cx23885_initialize() of
> >> cx25840-core.c:
> >> 	/* Drive GPIO2 (GPIO 19~23) direction and values for DVB-T */
> >> 	cx25840_and_or(client, 0x160, 0x1d, 0x00);
> >> 	cx25840_write(client, 0x164, 0x00);
> >>
> >>     Before that, the tuning status is 0x1e, but <0> service found.
> >>     Now, I can watch DVB-T (Taiwan, 6MHz bandwidth).
> >>
> >>     And if you are living in Australia, you should update the
> >> tuner-xc2028.c too:
> >>     http://tw1965.myweb.hinet.net/Linux/v4l-dvb/20090611-TDA18271HDC2/tuner-xc2028.c
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Terry
> >
> >
> > Hans,
> >
> > As I think of potential ways to handle this, I thought we may need to
> > add a v4l2_subdev interface for setting and reading GPIO's.
> 
> There is already an s_gpio in the core ops. It would be simple to add a
> g_gpio as well if needed.

Ooops.  Sorry for not doing my homework.  Thanks.

> 
> It is not a good idea to directly control GPIO pins from within a subdev
> driver for the simple reason that the subdev driver has no idea how its
> gpio pins are hooked up. This should really be done from the v4l driver
> itself.

Agree. This is what I waas thinking.

Regards,
Andy

>  If you need a notification from the subdev that the v4l driver
> needs to take some action, then the subdev can send a notification through
> the notify function in v4l2_device. That's currently used by one subdev
> driver that requires that the v4l driver toggles a GPIO pin at the right
> time.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>           Hans


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