[PATCH] staging: media: av7110: fix sp8870 initialization and hardware communication
From: Punnay299
Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 13:45:42 EST
Address multiple correctness issues in the sp8870 demodulator:
- Fix BER reporting in sp8870_read_ber() by correctly ORing the upper bits.
- Set state->initialised only after successful firmware upload in sp8870_init() to allow recovery from transient I2C failures.
- Catch partial I2C transfers (err == 0) in sp8870_firmware_upload() and return -EREMOTEIO to prevent silent firmware corruption.
Signed-off-by: Punnay299 <punnaysharma805@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c b/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
index 29fb4934c..def2a7f0c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ static int sp8870_writereg(struct sp8870_state *state, u16 reg, u16 data)
err = i2c_transfer(state->i2c, &msg, 1);
if (err != 1) {
- dprintk("writereg error (err == %i, reg == 0x%02x, data == 0x%02x)\n", err, reg, data);
+ dprintk("writereg error (err == %i, reg == 0x%02x, data == 0x%02x)\n",
+ err, reg, data);
return -EREMOTEIO;
}
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ static int sp8870_firmware_upload(struct sp8870_state *state, const struct firmw
if (err != 1) {
pr_err("%s(): firmware upload failed!\n", __func__);
pr_err("%s(): i2c error (err == %i)\n", __func__, err);
- return err;
+ return err < 0 ? err : -EREMOTEIO;
}
fw_pos += tx_len;
}
@@ -315,7 +316,6 @@ static int sp8870_init(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
sp8870_wake_up(state);
if (state->initialised)
return 0;
- state->initialised = 1;
dprintk("initialising frontend...\n");
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ static int sp8870_init(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
sp8870_writereg(state, 0x0D00, 0x010);
sp8870_writereg(state, 0x0D01, 0x000);
+ state->initialised = 1;
+
return 0;
}
@@ -401,7 +403,7 @@ static int sp8870_read_ber(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u32 *ber)
if (ret < 0)
return -EIO;
- tmp = ret << 6;
+ tmp |= ret << 6;
if (tmp >= 0x3FFF0)
tmp = ~0;
@@ -511,7 +513,8 @@ static int sp8870_set_frontend(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
if (valid) {
if (trials > 1) {
pr_info("%s(): firmware lockup!!!\n", __func__);
- pr_info("%s(): recovered after %i trial(s))\n", __func__, trials - 1);
+ pr_info("%s(): recovered after %i trial(s))\n",
+ __func__, trials - 1);
lockups++;
}
}
@@ -530,7 +533,8 @@ static int sp8870_sleep(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
return sp8870_writereg(state, 0xC18, 0x000);
}
-static int sp8870_get_tune_settings(struct dvb_frontend *fe, struct dvb_frontend_tune_settings *fesettings)
+static int sp8870_get_tune_settings(struct dvb_frontend *fe,
+ struct dvb_frontend_tune_settings *fesettings)
{
fesettings->min_delay_ms = 350;
fesettings->step_size = 0;
--
2.55.0