[meta-freescale] mxc_v4l2_capture sometimes not being modprobed

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:05 PM, John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Are you using udev-cache?

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