Re: [PATCH v2] stb0899: Fix slow and not locking DVB-S transponder(s)

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On 10/06/11 20:56, Manu Abraham wrote:
Mauro,

comments in-line.

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
Em 30-09-2011 15:41, Lutz Sammer escreveu:
On 09/30/11 19:07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em 29-09-2011 18:22, Lutz Sammer escreveu:
Another version of
http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/6307
http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/6510
which was superseded or rejected, but I don't know why.

Probably because of the same reason of this patch [1]:

patch -p1 -i patches/lmml_8023_v2_stb0899_fix_slow_and_not_locking_dvb_s_transponder_s.patch --dry-run -t -N
patching file drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 358.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c.rej
   drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c |    1 +
   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

I'll mark this one as rejected, as it doesn't apply upstream[2].

[1] http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/8023/
[2] at tree/branch: git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git staging/for_v3.2

Please test if the changes made upstream to solve a similar trouble fixes your issue.
If not, please rebase your patch on the top of it and resend.

Thanks,
Mauro

In stb0899_status stb0899_check_data the first read of STB0899_VSTATUS
could read old (from previous search) status bits and the search fails
on a good frequency.

With the patch more transponder could be locked and locks about 2* faster.

Manu,

Could you please review this one-line patch?



Signed-off-by: Lutz Sammer<johns98@xxxxxxx>
---
   drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c |    1 +
   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c
index d70eee0..8eca419 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/stb0899_algo.c
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ static enum stb0899_status stb0899_check_data(struct stb0899_state *state)
          else
                  dataTime = 500;

+       stb0899_read_reg(state, STB0899_VSTATUS); /* clear old status bits */
          stb0899_write_reg(state, STB0899_DSTATUS2, 0x00); /* force search loop */
          while (1) {
                  /* WARNING! VIT LOCKED has to be tested before VIT_END_LOOOP   */


Please add in these comments, in case you want to apply the change. I
am neither for the patch, nor against it.

- In fact, it doesn't hurt to read STATUS just before LOCK test.
- I wasn't able to find any noticeable difference in LOCK acquisition.
- Nowhere, I was able to find that reading VSTATUS, clears the
Read-Only bits set by the onchip microcontroller. The above comment
could be wrong at least, as far as I can say.

But that said, if the change does really help (thinking of strange
issues with some Silicon cuts)

Acked-by: Manu Abraham<manu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Manu


To be exact only the loop bit is reset by the read:

kernel: [62791.427869] stb0899: vstatus 40 00 40 00
kernel: [62791.597609] stb0899: vstatus 00 00 18 18

Printed twice before and after the loop. I tested this with the
tt-3600 and tt-3650.

Johns






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