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| -rw-r--r-- | include/media/drv-intf/cx25840.h | 28 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/media/drv-intf/cx25840.h b/include/media/drv-intf/cx25840.h index 328ddb359fdf..4eae27c163ba 100644 --- a/include/media/drv-intf/cx25840.h +++ b/include/media/drv-intf/cx25840.h @@ -9,17 +9,23 @@ #ifndef _CX25840_H_ #define _CX25840_H_ -/* Note that the cx25840 driver requires that the bridge driver calls the - v4l2_subdev's init operation in order to load the driver's firmware. - Without this the audio standard detection will fail and you will - only get mono. - - Since loading the firmware is often problematic when the driver is - compiled into the kernel I recommend postponing calling this function - until the first open of the video device. Another reason for - postponing it is that loading this firmware takes a long time (seconds) - due to the slow i2c bus speed. So it will speed up the boot process if - you can avoid loading the fw as long as the video device isn't used. */ +/* + * Note that the cx25840 driver requires that the bridge driver calls the + * v4l2_subdev's load_fw operation in order to load the driver's firmware. + * This will load the firmware on the first invocation (further ones are NOP). + * Without this the audio standard detection will fail and you will + * only get mono. + * Alternatively, you can call the reset operation (this can be done + * multiple times if needed, each invocation will fully reinitialize + * the device). + * + * Since loading the firmware is often problematic when the driver is + * compiled into the kernel I recommend postponing calling this function + * until the first open of the video device. Another reason for + * postponing it is that loading this firmware takes a long time (seconds) + * due to the slow i2c bus speed. So it will speed up the boot process if + * you can avoid loading the fw as long as the video device isn't used. + */ enum cx25840_video_input { /* Composite video inputs In1-In8 */ |