tree 4b08ddedcb6717f189668e66e6f35e496ae318ff
parent ba70d59bb987110c4394e896b299f9726609aa33
author holger@muscate-magnussen.de <holger@muscate-magnussen.de> 1178022356 -0300
committer Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> 1178716355 -0300

V4L/DVB (5578): Workaround for bad hardare/firmware on some pluto2 devices

pluto2_driver: Workaround for pluto2 card reporting wrong number of
received packets and flooding system with interrupts.

This patch constitutes a workaround for a hardware/firmware problem of the
pluto2-based card (e.g., Satelco EasyWatch).

It can happen in rare cases that the card gets into a mode where it
always reports back a number of received packets (nbpackets) which is
larger than the maximum permissible number of packets (TS_DMA_PACKETS).
The workaround that is already in the driver in function pluto_dma_end
reports back zero received packets. In spite of the (in reality) zero
received packets the card continues to generate interrupts at a very
high rate, which can effectively stall the system.

The patch resets the TS logic, which puts the card back into normal
operations.

Signed-off-by: Holger Magnussen <holger@muscate-magnussen.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>