[PATCH] bus: mhi: Remove auto-start option

Bhaumik Bhatt bbhatt at codeaurora.org
Wed Nov 18 12:46:04 EST 2020


On 2020-11-18 03:57 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:55:19PM +0800, Carl Huang wrote:
>> On 2020-11-18 17:31, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:43:48AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> > > Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org> writes:
>> > >
>> > > > From: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at linaro.org>
>> > > >
>> > > > There is really no point having an auto-start for channels.
>> > > > This is confusing for the device drivers, some have to enable the
>> > > > channels, others don't have... and waste resources (e.g. pre allocated
>> > > > buffers) that may never be used.
>> > > >
>> > > > This is really up to the MHI device(channel) driver to manage the state
>> > > > of its channels.
>> > > >
>> > > > While at it, let's also remove the auto-start option from ath11k mhi
>> > > > controller.
>> > > >
>> > > > Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at linaro.org>
>> > > > Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>
>> > > > [mani: clubbed ath11k change]
>> > > > Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>
>> > >
>> > > Thanks and feel free to take this to the immutable branch:
>> > >
>> > > Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>
>> >
>> > Patch applied to mhi-ath11k-immutable branch and merged into mhi-next.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Mani
>> >
>> Does net/qrtr/mhi.c need changes? I guess now net/qrtr/mhi.c needs to 
>> call
>> mhi_prepare_for_transfer() before transfer.
>> 
> 
> Yes and the patch is also applied:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mani/mhi.git/commit/?h=mhi-ath11k-immutable&id=a2e2cc0dbb1121dfa875da1c04f3dff966fec162
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
> 
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
>> > >
>> > > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
It looks we forgot to add the mhi_unprepare_from_transfer() equivalent 
in the remove().

Will send a patch for it today.

Thanks,
Bhaumik
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