The IR controller has a couple quirks. It won't respond until some other
device on the bus is probed. To work around that, probe 0x50 first.
Then, since it won't respond to a zero-byte read, probe with a one-byte
read.
Signed-off-by: Brian Rogers <brian_rogers@comcast.net>
[mchehab.redhat.com: Fix merge conflicts and remove an unused var]
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>