Re: [PATCH] staging/comedi: Fix undefined array subscript

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

On 2013-02-13 11:56, Ian Abbott wrote:
> For a digital output subdevice, you could either read back the current
> values directly from the hardware or just use the value previously
> written.  The Velleman K8055 doesn't have a command to read back the
> digital outputs from the hardware, so the last written value has to be
> used.  But what if the digital outputs have never been written (or the
> analog outputs have never been written, since the same command updates
> all analog and digital channels)?  A "reset" command is sent to the
> hardware on initialization by vmk80xx_reset_device() (only called for
> the K8055), but I don't know what effect this has on the actual digital
> (and analog) outputs (though I could find out easily enough as we appear
> to have one of these kits (assembled) lying around in the office).  If
> necessary, we may have to also send a "write" command on initialization
> to make the hardware outputs match the initial software state.

I've had a quick play with a K8055 and it seems the "reset" command 
issued during hardware initialization has no effect on the digital 
outputs.  (I tested this by setting some digital outputs with comedi 
instructions - there are some handy LEDs on the board that light up or 
not according to the state of the digital outputs - then rmmod'ing and 
modprobe'ing the vmk80xx module - the LEDs remained in the same state.)

Since we can't read back the outputs on this board we should initialize 
them to a known state.  I'll submit some patches later.

Nothing to do with the patch in this thread, which has my Ack.

Acked-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>

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