Re: [PATCH 5/6] [media] ds3000: properly report firmware probing issues

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On 09/14/2012 12:27 PM, Rémi Cardona wrote:
ds3000_readreg() returns negative values in case of i2c failures. The
old code would simply return 0 when failing to read the 0xb2 register,
misleading ds3000_initfe() into believing that the firmware had been
correctly loaded.

Also print out a message if the chip says a firmware is already loaded.
This should make it more obvious if the chip is in a weird state.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Cardona <remi.cardona@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx>

I still suggest to use pr_info() / dev_info() instead of printk(KERN_INFO...).

Also printing "Firmware already uploaded, skipping" *every time* when device is opened is not wise.


---
  drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ds3000.c |    8 +++++++-
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ds3000.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ds3000.c
index 162faaf..970963c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ds3000.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ds3000.c
@@ -395,8 +395,14 @@ static int ds3000_firmware_ondemand(struct dvb_frontend *fe)

  	dprintk("%s()\n", __func__);

-	if (ds3000_readreg(state, 0xb2) <= 0)
+	ret = ds3000_readreg(state, 0xb2);
+	if (ret == 0) {
+		printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Firmware already uploaded, skipping\n",
+			__func__);
  		return ret;
+	} else if (ret < 0) {
+		return ret;
+	}

  	/* Load firmware */
  	/* request the firmware, this will block until someone uploads it */


regards
Antti

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