Hello,
On Monday, 9 April 2018 09:58:12 EEST jacopo mondi wrote:
> Hello Akinobu,
> thank you for the patch.
>
> On which platform have you tested the series (just curious) ?
>
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 12:48:05AM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > The ov772x driver only works when the i2c controller have
> > I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING. However, many i2c controller drivers don't
> > support it.
> >
> > The reason that the ov772x requires I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING is that
> > it doesn't support repeated starts.
> >
> > This change adds an alternative method for reading from ov772x register
> > which uses two separated i2c messages for the i2c controllers without
> > I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING.
>
> Actually, and please correct me if I'm wrong, what I see here is that
> an i2c_master_send+i2c_master_recv sequence is equivalent to a mangled
> smbus transaction:
>
> i2c_smbus_read_byte_data | I2C_CLIENT_SCCB:
> S Addr Wr [A] Comm [A] P S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P
>
> i2c_master_send() + i2c_master_recv():
> S Addr Wr [A] Data [A] P
> S Addr Rd [A] [Data] NA P
>
> I wonder if it is not worth to ditch the existing read() function in
> favour of your new proposed one completely.
Given that this implementation is in no way specific to the ov772x driver,
wouldn't it be better to handle this fallback in the I2C core instead ?
> I have tested it on the Migo-R board where I have an ov772x installed
> and it works fine.
>
> Although I would like to have a confirmation this is fine by people
> how has seen more i2c adapters in action than me :)
>
> > Cc: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > drivers/media/i2c/ov772x.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> > 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov772x.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov772x.c
> > index b62860c..283ae2c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov772x.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov772x.c
> > @@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ struct ov772x_priv {
> > /* band_filter = COM8[5] ? 256 - BDBASE : 0 */
> > unsigned short band_filter;
> > unsigned int fps;
> > + int (*reg_read)(struct i2c_client *client, u8 addr);
> > };
> >
> > /*
> > @@ -542,11 +543,34 @@ static struct ov772x_priv *to_ov772x(struct
> > v4l2_subdev *sd)
> > return container_of(sd, struct ov772x_priv, subdev);
> > }
> >
> > -static inline int ov772x_read(struct i2c_client *client, u8 addr)
> > +static int ov772x_read(struct i2c_client *client, u8 addr)
> > +{
> > + struct v4l2_subdev *sd = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
> > + struct ov772x_priv *priv = to_ov772x(sd);
> > +
> > + return priv->reg_read(client, addr);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int ov772x_reg_read(struct i2c_client *client, u8 addr)
> > {
> > return i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, addr);
> > }
> >
> > +static int ov772x_reg_read_fallback(struct i2c_client *client, u8 addr)
> > +{
> > + int ret;
> > + u8 val;
> > +
> > + ret = i2c_master_send(client, &addr, 1);
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + return ret;
> > + ret = i2c_master_recv(client, &val, 1);
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + return val;
> > +}
> > +
> >
> > static inline int ov772x_write(struct i2c_client *client, u8 addr, u8
> > value) {
> > return i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, addr, value);
> > @@ -1255,20 +1279,20 @@ static int ov772x_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
> >
> > - if (!i2c_check_functionality(adapter, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA |
> > - I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING)) {
> > - dev_err(&adapter->dev,
> > - "I2C-Adapter doesn't support SMBUS_BYTE_DATA or PROTOCOL_MANGLING
\n");
> > - return -EIO;
> > - }
> > - client->flags |= I2C_CLIENT_SCCB;
> > -
> > priv = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!priv)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > priv->info = client->dev.platform_data;
> >
> > + if (i2c_check_functionality(adapter, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA |
> > + I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING))
> > + priv->reg_read = ov772x_reg_read;
> > + else
> > + priv->reg_read = ov772x_reg_read_fallback;
> > +
> > + client->flags |= I2C_CLIENT_SCCB;
> > +
> > v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&priv->subdev, client, &ov772x_subdev_ops);
> > v4l2_ctrl_handler_init(&priv->hdl, 3);
> > v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&priv->hdl, &ov772x_ctrl_ops,
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
