Re: [PATCH 1/3] [media] si2157: get chip id during probing

[Antti Palosaari]

On 03/16/2017 12:22 AM, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> If the si2157 is behind a e.g. si2168, the si2157 will
> at least in some situations not be readable after the si268
> got the command 0101. It still accepts commands but the answer
> is just ffffff. So read the chip id before that so the
> information is not lost.
>
> The following line in kernel output is a symptome
> of that problem:
> si2157 7-0063: unknown chip version Si21255-\xffffffff\xffffffff\xffffffff
That is hackish solution :( Somehow I2C reads should be get working 
rather than making this kind of work-around. Returning 0xff to i2c reads 
means that signal strength also shows some wrong static value?

regards
Antti

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