Re: Nokia N900: Broken lirc ir-rx51 driver

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 05:18:49 EST


On Saturday 02 January 2016 09:06:57 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> [160102 06:46]:
> > --- a/drivers/media/rc/ir-rx51.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/rc/ir-rx51.c
> > @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
> > #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> > #include <linux/sched.h>
> > #include <linux/wait.h>
> > +#include <linux/clk.h>
> >
> > -#include <plat/dmtimer.h>
> > -#include <plat/clock.h>
> > +#include "../../../arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/dmtimer.h"
>
> Well we don't want to export the dmtimer functions to drivers..But
> we now have the PWM driver that can be already used for most of the
> ir-rx51.c.

Ok. Is PWM driver included in mainline kernel?

> > #include <media/lirc.h>
> > #include <media/lirc_dev.h>
> > @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int lirc_rx51_init_port(struct lirc_rx51 *lirc_rx51)
> > }
> >
> > clk_fclk = omap_dm_timer_get_fclk(lirc_rx51->pwm_timer);
> > - lirc_rx51->fclk_khz = clk_fclk->rate / 1000;
> > + lirc_rx51->fclk_khz = clk_get_rate(clk_fclk) / 1000;
> >
> > return 0;
> >
> >
> > So Tony, you are author of that commit (a62a6e98c3) which broke ir-rx51
> > module for Nokia N900. Do you know how to fix this driver for upstream
> > kernel? It would be great to have driver working and not to have it in
> > this dead state...
>
> Yup please take a look at thread "[PATCH 0/3] pwm: omap: Add PWM support
> using dual-mode timers". Chances are we still need to set up the dmtimer
> code to provide also irqchip functions. That way ir-rx51.c can just do
> request_irq on the selected dmtimer for interrupts.

No I see that patch from that thread uses dmtimer.h from plat-omap. So
it is really OK?

> > Also platform data for this driver are only in legacy board code.
> > Support in DTS is missing, so driver (after fixing above problem) cannot
> > be used on DT booted kernel.
>
> Yeah those parts should be already doable with the PWM timer code AFAIK.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
>
>

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