Commit 548ad8ee authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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media: dvb_frontend: warn if frontend driver has API issues

the kAPI for a frontend can use 3 different tuning methods:

1. The hardware tracks internally frequency shifts via its
   own internal zigzag logic;
2. The hardware has a custom zigzag method, implemented via
   fe search() ops;
3. The hardware doesn't have any internal zigzag logic. So,
   the Kernel needs to implement it.

Drivers that use the in-kernel software zigzag are required to
provide some parameters for the zigzag code to work. Failing
to do that will just make the Kernel to tune several times
to the very same frequency, delaying the tuning time for
no good reason. This is actually a kAPI violation
(and an uAPI one, as the frequency shift is exported to the
uAPI).

Emit a warning on such case, as the driver needs to be fixed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/6d5941e3ba77439bbc401207cd87d9b8748d5cb8.1616427172.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
parent 8d4a554d
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