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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: "Jonas Dreßler" <verdre@v0yd.nl>
Cc: "Amitkumar Karwar" <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
"Ganapathi Bhat" <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
"Xinming Hu" <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
"Kalle Valo" <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Tsuchiya Yuto" <kitakar@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
"Maximilian Luz" <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>,
"Heiner Kallweit" <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Brian Norris" <briannorris@chromium.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mwifiex: Use non-posted PCI write when setting TX ring write pointer
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:22:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUsuCPSYsRhlCxwD@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9293504f-f70d-61ac-b221-dd466f01b5df@v0yd.nl>
On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 02:08:39PM +0200, Jonas Dreßler wrote:
> On 9/22/21 1:17 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Jonas Dreßler wrote:
...
> > Should it have a Fixes tag?
> >
>
> Don't think so, there's the infamous
> (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109681) Bugzilla bug it fixes
> though, I'll mention that in v3.
Good idea, use BugLink tag for that!
...
> Interesting, I haven't noticed that mwifiex_write_reg() always returns 0. So
> are you suggesting to remove that return value and get rid of all the "if
> (mwifiex_write_reg()) {}" checks in a separate commit?
Something like this, yes.
> As for why the dummy read/write functions exist, I have no idea. Looking at
> git history it seems they were always there (only change is that
> mwifiex_read_reg() started to handle read errors with commit
> af05148392f50490c662dccee6c502d9fcba33e2). My bet would be that they were
> created to be consistent with sdio.c which is the oldest supported bus type
> in mwifiex.
It has a check against all ones. Also your another patch mentioned wake up.
Perhaps the purpose is to wake up and return if device was/is in power off mode
(D3hot).
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 11:48 [PATCH v2 0/2] mwifiex: Work around firmware bugs on 88W8897 chip Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-14 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mwifiex: Use non-posted PCI write when setting TX ring write pointer Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-22 11:17 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-22 12:08 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-22 13:22 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-09-22 14:03 ` David Laight
2021-09-22 14:27 ` Pali Rohár
2021-09-22 15:54 ` David Laight
2021-09-30 14:27 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-10-06 16:01 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-14 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mwifiex: Try waking the firmware until we get an interrupt Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-22 11:19 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-30 18:04 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-30 20:58 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-30 21:07 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-30 21:16 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-10-03 9:18 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-10-04 17:52 ` Brian Norris
2021-09-27 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] mwifiex: Work around firmware bugs on 88W8897 chip Brian Norris
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