Re: [PATCH v1] nfc: pn544: Fix occasional HW initialization failure

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Wed Feb 19 2020 - 16:42:03 EST


19.02.2020 22:11, David Miller ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> From: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:01:22 +0300
>
>> The PN544 driver checks the "enable" polarity during of driver's probe and
>> it's doing that by turning ON and OFF NFC with different polarities until
>> enabling succeeds. It takes some time for the hardware to power-down, and
>> thus, to deassert the IRQ that is raised by turning ON the hardware.
>> Since the delay after last power-down of the polarity-checking process is
>> missed in the code, the interrupt may trigger immediately after installing
>> the IRQ handler (right after the checking is done), which results in IRQ
>> handler trying to touch the disabled HW and ends with marking NFC as
>> 'DEAD' during of the driver's probe:
>>
>> pn544_hci_i2c 1-002a: NFC: nfc_en polarity : active high
>> pn544_hci_i2c 1-002a: NFC: invalid len byte
>> shdlc: llc_shdlc_recv_frame: NULL Frame -> link is dead
>>
>> This patch fixes the occasional NFC initialization failure on Nexus 7
>> device.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
>

Awesome, thanks!