On 03/23/2016 06:58 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
On 2016-01-06 06:42, Antti Palosaari wrote:
Recent i2c mux locking update offers support for i2c controlled i2c
muxes. Use it and get the rid of homemade hackish i2c adapter
locking code.
[actual patch elided]
I had a 2nd look and it seems that the saa7164 driver has support for
a HVR2055 card with dual si2168 chips. These two chips appear to sit
on the same i2c-bus with different i2c-addresses (0x64 and 0x66) and
with gates (implemented as muxes) to two identical tuners with the
same i2c-address (0x60). Do I read it right?
saa7164 has 3 different I2C adapters.
saa7164 I2C bus #0:
* eeprom
* Si2157 #1
saa7164 I2C bus #1:
* Si2157 #2
saa7164 I2C bus #2:
* Si2168 #1
* Si2168 #2
So both of the Si2157 tuners could have same addresses.
(It is Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2205, not HVR-2055).
With the current i2c-mux-locking (parent-locked muxes), this works
fine as an access to one of the tuners locks the root i2c adapter
and thus the other tuner is also locked out. But with the upcoming
i2c-mux-locking for i2c-controlled muxes (self-locked muxes), the
root i2c adapter would no longer be locked for the full transaction
when one of the tuners is accessed. This means that accesses to the
two tuners may interleave and cause all kinds of trouble, should
both gates be open at the same time. So, is it really correct and
safe to change the si2168 driver to use a self-locked mux?
Unless there is some other mechanism that prevents the two tuners
from being accessed in parallel, I think not. But maybe there is such
a mechanism?
Good point. Actually there is pretty often this kind of configuration
used for those dual tuner devices and it will cause problems...
Currently all of those implements hackish i2c_gate_ctrl() callback to
switch mux.
____________ ____________ ____________
|I2C-adapter | | I2C-mux | | I2C-client |
|------------| |------------| |------------|
| | | addr 0x1c | | addr 0x60 |
| | | | | |
| |-+-I2C---|-----/ -----|---I2C---| |
|____________| | |____________| |____________|
| ____________ ____________
| | I2C-mux | | I2C-client |
| |------------| |------------|
| | addr 0x1d | | addr 0x60 |
| | | | |
+-I2C---|-----/ -----|---I2C---| |
|____________| |____________|
regards
Antti
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