[meta-freescale] mxc_v4l2_capture sometimes not being modprobed

John Weber rjohnweber at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 11:05:37 PDT 2014


Hey Otavio,

On 6/5/14, 12:34 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:42 AM, John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> meta-freescalers:
>>
>> I'm seeing a behavior that I can't easily explain.  I'm not seeing the
>> mxc_v4l2_capture drivers and dependent ipu drivers being automatically
>> modprobed on Wandboard during a majority of system startups (but not all).
>> I was under the impression that this should be done by udev, but for some
>> reason it seems to either fail or is skipped.
>>
>> I can force the driver to be loaded at startup by adding the name of the
>> driver in a line in /etc/modules.  This works to load the driver every time
>> at startup, but I'm fairly certain that this is not the most ideal approach
>> because (A) I have to write a recipe to make the change to /etc/modules and
>> (B) it does not explain why the driver load works sometimes, but not all of
>> the time.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> Does this happens with 3.0.35 and 3.10.17?
>
I did notice it on both kernels.  From what I've been able to gather after 
sending this email, the modules load at first boot on a freshly burned rootfs 
(that hasn't been postinst'd).  After that, SW and HW resets and POR to not 
result in loaded mxc_v4l2_capture module or its dependencies.  I do have other 
modules loaded, however, all the time - the ov5640_mipi driver and the Broadcom 
WLAN drivers load without fail.

I suspect it could be a sequencing problem, but adding the line to /etc/modules 
fixes it.

John


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