Re: htc dream wl1251 and MSM_GPIO_TO_INT(29)

[Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:33:13AM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> The problem is the following:
> When I do that:
> modprobe msm_wifi, wich is the old wifi activator from bob copeland
> available here:
> http://bobcopeland.com/srcs/android/msm_wifi.patch
> 
> it freeze the phone, and watch -n 0.1 cat /proc/interupts trough ssh
> seem frozen too
> 
> Here's the code for passing the data :
> 
> static void trout_wl1251_init(void)
> {
>         struct wl12xx_platform_data trout_wl1251_pdata;
>         int ret;
> 
>         trout_wl1251_pdata.irq = MSM_GPIO_TO_INT(29);
>         if (trout_wl1251_pdata.irq < 0)
>                 goto fail_irq;

This can't ever be true, right?

>         trout_wl1251_pdata.use_eeprom = false;
>         ret = wl12xx_set_platform_data(&trout_wl1251_pdata);
>         if (ret < 0)
>                 goto fail_irq;

More often one uses "if (ret)" unless ret > 0 has special meaning.

> fail_irq:
>         printk("trout wifi GPIO failed\n");
>         gpio_free(TROUT_WIFI_IRQ_GPIO);

But you always free a gpio here, shouldn't there be a return in there
before the fail_irq label?

> }
>

> How should I start debugging that issue? do I need a serial cable for my
> device and kgdb(doesn't serial need IRQ?, maybe I should look how msm
> serial works)?

It could be an interrupt storm, but check the above code, and
also make sure you still have the dummy msm_wifi platform device too, and
that the msm_wifi driver is getting a struct wifi_platform_data.

Unfortunately, I don't know of an easy way to debug livelocks due to
interrupt storms other than by disabling everything and then enabling one
thing at a time until it breaks again.

It's obviously going to be a lot of work, but if you can manage to get
a current kernel booting on your hardware and dump the msm_wifi module,
that would be the ideal approach.

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