V4L/DVB (13581): DiBUSB: fix I2c access when there is a read-access w/o write sequence
authorPatrick Boettcher <pboettcher@kernellabs.com>
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:14:36 +0000 (14:14 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:18:27 +0000 (00:18 -0200)
This patch fixes the behaviour of the dibusb-i2c-access which was previously changed to avoid accidental EEprom writes:

Now it allow i2c-reads without prepended i2c-writes, but it is still not doing anything in case the EEprom is addressed.

Thanks to Mario Bachmann for testing.

Tested-by: Mario Bachmann <grafgrimm77@gmx.de>
Cc: Mario Bachmann <grafgrimm77@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pboettcher@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c

index b395e852e47f035fe7d1b3eaffb698117a417c94..9143b5631e88b9e2bcbe3b02851fcf09b3055171 100644 (file)
@@ -142,8 +142,13 @@ static int dibusb_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap,struct i2c_msg msg[],int num
                } else if ((msg[i].flags & I2C_M_RD) == 0) {
                        if (dibusb_i2c_msg(d, msg[i].addr, msg[i].buf,msg[i].len,NULL,0) < 0)
                                break;
-               } else
-                       break;
+               } else if (msg[i].addr != 0x50) {
+                       /* 0x50 is the address of the eeprom - we need to protect it
+                        * from dibusb's bad i2c implementation: reads without
+                        * writing the offset before are forbidden */
+                       if (dibusb_i2c_msg(d, msg[i].addr, NULL, 0, msg[i].buf, msg[i].len) < 0)
+                               break;
+               }
        }
 
        mutex_unlock(&d->i2c_mutex);