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RFC PATCH In review Brian Bloniarz 2 participants 3 messages Jan 18, 2011 Sound

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RFC PATCH 1/1 theory about CS8247 failed reads

On my M-Audio Delta 66 (rev. E), I see this line:

[   23.248721] invalid CS8427 signature 0x0: let me try again...

This is caused by the first request to the CS8427 failing, and this workaround:

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commit 4eb4550ab37d351ab0973ccec921a5a2d8560ec7,

Author: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Sep 20 17:34:57 2007 +0200

[ALSA] Workaround for invalid signature read of CS8427

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Reading the signature of CS8427 over SPI/I2C fails on some devices by mysterious reason. In most cases, however, it succeeds at the sequential read. So, let's give a second chance to check the signature again.

I have a theory, please read the patch and patch description below. With the patch applied, the printk goes away.

Does this sound like a reasonable theory? Does anyone recall, did this failed read occur on any cards besides M-Audio Delta? I'm wondering if this is the whole explanation, in which case the previous workaround could be removed.

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[PATCH] [ALSA] ice1712 delta - initialize SPI clock.

The driver was using an initial value for the clock on the SPI bus which was read from ICE1712 EEPROM, ice->eeprom.data[ICE_EEP1_GPIO_STATE] & ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK (0x02)

It appears some cards have it default high, some cards have it default low. On my Delta 66 rev. E:

$ cat /proc/asound/M66/ice1712 | grep 'GPIO state'
  GPIO state       : 0x70 /* ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK bit is zero */
On my Audiophile 2496:
$ cat /proc/asound/M2496/ice1712 | grep 'GPIO state'
  GPIO state       : 0xfe /* ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK bit is one */

It must be raised before the first SPI write happens, or the write will fail, leading to:

[   23.248721] invalid CS8427 signature 0x0: let me try again...

I theorize that 4eb4550ab37d351ab0973ccec921a5a2d8560ec7 is no longer needed, it was a different way to workaround the problem.

---
 sound/pci/ice1712/delta.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
sound/pci/ice1712/delta.c +7 -0
index 7b62de0..84a6031 100644
@@ -622,6 +622,13 @@ static int __devinit snd_ice1712_delta_init(struct snd_ice1712 *ice)
                break;
        }
 
+       /* initialize the SPI clock to high */
+       unsigned char tmp;
+       tmp = snd_ice1712_read(ice, ICE1712_IREG_GPIO_DATA);
+       tmp |= ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK;
+       snd_ice1712_write(ice, ICE1712_IREG_GPIO_DATA, tmp);
+       udelay(5);
+
        /* initialize spdif */
        switch (ice->eeprom.subvendor) {
        case ICE1712_SUBDEVICE_AUDIOPHILE:
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At Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:20:03 -0800,

Quoted 45 lines · Brian Bloniarz

On my M-Audio Delta 66 (rev. E), I see this line:

[   23.248721] invalid CS8427 signature 0x0: let me try again...

This is caused by the first request to the CS8427 failing, and this workaround:

Quoted 6 lines

commit 4eb4550ab37d351ab0973ccec921a5a2d8560ec7,

Author: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Sep 20 17:34:57 2007 +0200

[ALSA] Workaround for invalid signature read of CS8427

Quoted 7 lines

Reading the signature of CS8427 over SPI/I2C fails on some devices by mysterious reason. In most cases, however, it succeeds at the sequential read. So, let's give a second chance to check the signature again.

I have a theory, please read the patch and patch description below. With the patch applied, the printk goes away.

Does this sound like a reasonable theory? Does anyone recall, did this failed read occur on any cards besides M-Audio Delta? I'm wondering if this is the whole explanation, in which case the previous workaround could be removed.

------------------------

[PATCH] [ALSA] ice1712 delta - initialize SPI clock.

The driver was using an initial value for the clock on the SPI bus which was read from ICE1712 EEPROM, ice->eeprom.data[ICE_EEP1_GPIO_STATE] & ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK (0x02)

It appears some cards have it default high, some cards have it default low. On my Delta 66 rev. E:

$ cat /proc/asound/M66/ice1712 | grep 'GPIO state'
  GPIO state       : 0x70 /* ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK bit is zero */
On my Audiophile 2496:
$ cat /proc/asound/M2496/ice1712 | grep 'GPIO state'
  GPIO state       : 0xfe /* ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK bit is one */
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It must be raised before the first SPI write happens, or the write will fail, leading to:

[   23.248721] invalid CS8427 signature 0x0: let me try again...

I theorize that 4eb4550ab37d351ab0973ccec921a5a2d8560ec7 is no longer needed, it was a different way to workaround the problem.

Yes, your fix looks sane (and safe).
I'll queue it up later for 2.6.38 merge.

The retry-code can be kept for a while as it's basically harmless for the succeeded case. We can remove it eventually later, but I doubt we can be 100% sure about such a thing ;)

thanks,

Takashi

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---
 sound/pci/ice1712/delta.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
sound/pci/ice1712/delta.c +7 -0
index 7b62de0..84a6031 100644
@@ -622,6 +622,13 @@ static int __devinit snd_ice1712_delta_init(struct snd_ice1712 *ice)
                break;
        }
 
+       /* initialize the SPI clock to high */
+       unsigned char tmp;
+       tmp = snd_ice1712_read(ice, ICE1712_IREG_GPIO_DATA);
+       tmp |= ICE1712_DELTA_AP_CCLK;
+       snd_ice1712_write(ice, ICE1712_IREG_GPIO_DATA, tmp);
+       udelay(5);
+
        /* initialize spdif */
        switch (ice->eeprom.subvendor) {
        case ICE1712_SUBDEVICE_AUDIOPHILE:
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Quoted 2 lines · Takashi Iwai

Yes, your fix looks sane (and safe).
I'll queue it up later for 2.6.38 merge.

Sounds great, thanks!

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The retry-code can be kept for a while as it's basically harmless for the succeeded case. We can remove it eventually later, but I doubt we can be 100% sure about such a thing ;)

Sure, that makes sense to me.

Thanks,
-Brian