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Date:   Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:15:14 +0530
From:   Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
To:     Bhaumik Bhatt <bbhatt@codeaurora.org>
Cc:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] ath11k: set register access length for MHI driver
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:38:01AM -0700, Bhaumik Bhatt wrote:
> Hi Kalle/Mani,
> 
> On 2021-06-14 10:49 AM, Bhaumik Bhatt wrote:
> > Hi Kalle,
> > 
> > On 2021-06-14 09:02 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > > Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 12:51:43PM -0700, Bhaumik Bhatt wrote:
> > > > > MHI driver requires register space length to add range checks and
> > > > > prevent memory region accesses outside of that for MMIO space.
> > > > > Set it before registering the MHI controller.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Bhaumik Bhatt <bbhatt@codeaurora.org>
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Hemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
> > > > 
> > > > Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
> > > > 
> > > > Kalle, should we do immutable branch for this patch or I can
> > > > pick it up via MHI
> > > > tree (if there are no other patches expected from ath11k for
> > > > this controller)?
> > > 
> > > I'm not expecting any conflicts with this, and if there are, they
> > > should
> > > be easy for Stephen or Linus to fix. So it's easiest to route this via
> > > your tree. But I'm not giving my ack yet, see below.
> > > 
> > > I'm worried that this patchset breaks bisect. Every patch in the
> > > patchset should not break existing functionality, what if only patches
> > > 1-3 are included in the tree but not patch 4? Wouldn't ath11k be
> > > broken
> > > then? I didn't review the whole patchset, but I suspect the fix is to
> > > include the ath11k change in the actual mhi patch which changes the
> > > functionality. So that way we would not have a separate ath11k patch
> > > at
> > > all.
> > > 
> > > Also I'm not able to test this patchset at the moment. Can someone
> > > else
> > > help and do a quick test with QCA6390 to verify these doesn't break
> > > ath11k?
> > 
> > I have requested someone to try and test this patch series with QCA6390.
> > 
> > I or the testers will get back to you with the test results when they
> > are
> > available.
> > 
> > As far as your concerns go, you can choose to pick patches 1-3 and that
> > would
> > be just fine.
> > 
> > Things will break if patchset 4 is _not_ in place with patchset 6 being
> > part of
> > the tree.
> > 
> > It would, however, be nice to pick the whole series instead and ensure
> > that
> > the functionality MHI introduces for boot-up sanity is in place for any
> > controllers such as ath11k.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bhaumik
> > ---
> > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora
> > Forum,
> > a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
> 
> Just got confirmation that the whole patch series was tested for functional
> sanity on
> Dell E7590 + QCA6390 with Ubuntu18.04 and patch 4/6 is also good to go.
> 
> Can you please ACK and pick up this series?
> 

I can pick the series but I need an Ack from Kalle since it contains
ath11k changes. Kalle, can you please Ack this patch?

I'm planning to send the PR by this weekend.

Thanks,
Mani

> Thanks,
> Bhaumik
> ---
> The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
> a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project