Re: [PATCH v2 02/18] media: i2c: rdacm20: Enable noise immunity

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Jacopo,

Thank you for the patch.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 02:14:56PM +0100, Jacopo Mondi wrote:
> Enable the noise immunity threshold at the end of the rdacm20
> initialization routine.
> 
> The rdacm20 camera module has been so far tested with a startup
> delay that allowed the embedded MCU to program the serializer. If
> the initialization routine is run before the MCU programs the
> serializer and the image sensor and their addresses gets changed
> by the rdacm20 driver it is required to manually enable the noise
> immunity threshold to make the communication on the control channel
> more reliable.

I'm still worried by the race with the MCU. Any update on dumping the
MCU configuration to check what it initializes ?

> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@jmondi.org>
> ---
>  drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c b/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c
> index 90eb73f0e6e9..f7fd5ae955d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/rdacm20.c
> @@ -541,7 +541,13 @@ static int rdacm20_initialize(struct rdacm20_device *dev)
>  
>  	dev_info(dev->dev, "Identified MAX9271 + OV10635 device\n");
>  
> -	return 0;
> +	/*
> +	 * Set reverse channel high threshold to increase noise immunity.
> +	 *
> +	 * This should be compensated by increasing the reverse channel
> +	 * amplitude on the remote deserializer side.
> +	 */
> +	return max9271_set_high_threshold(&dev->serializer, true);
>  }
>  
>  static int rdacm20_probe(struct i2c_client *client)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart