restoring ov7670/cafe_ccic to previous state
Deepak Saxena
dsaxena at laptop.org
Mon Jun 23 17:24:14 EDT 2008
On Jun 23 2008, at 17:58, Daniel Drake was caught saying:
> Hi,
>
> As you may have heard, olpc3 builds occasionally hang on boot during
> cafe_ccic/ov7670 initialization.
>
> Erik and myself tracked down the problem to this upstream commit, which
> has never been shipped in an olpc stream before olpc3:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d77444
> On boots where the bug appears, the do..while loop added by the patch
> iterates indefinitely.
>
> Jon Corbet is looking into the problem, but I feel that we should revert
> the driver to the update1 state for the time being. We should be
> starting to stabilise olpc3.
I agree. I'll pull your commits into master and testing and hopefuly
we'll see a more stable fix in time for 8.2 (though my experience
so far with the CAFE chip makes me not very optimistic).
~Deepak
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