[PATCH] wifi: ath12k: Fix pdev id sent to firmware for single phy devices

[Kalle Valo]

Ramya Gnanasekar <quic_rgnanase at quicinc.com> writes:

> On 6/19/2024 7:43 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Ramya Gnanasekar <quic_rgnanase at quicinc.com> writes:
>> 
>>> From: Lingbo Kong <quic_lingbok at quicinc.com>
>>>
>>> Pdev id from mac phy capabilities will be sent as a part of
>>> HTT/WMI command to firmware. This causes issue with single pdev
>>> devices where firmware does not respond to the WMI/HTT request
>>> sent from host.
>> 
>> But WCN7850 already works so I'm not really understanding the bug
>> description. Can you elaborate, please?
>
> pdev id from mac capabilities sent as a part of HTT stats request or WMI
> control path stats request was not expected by WCN7850 and hence fails
> to send the stats response.

Ok, now I understand. Please include that info to the commit message.

>>> @@ -81,5 +81,8 @@ int ath12k_mac_rfkill_config(struct ath12k *ar);
>>>  int ath12k_mac_wait_tx_complete(struct ath12k *ar);
>>>  void ath12k_mac_handle_beacon(struct ath12k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb);
>>>  void ath12k_mac_handle_beacon_miss(struct ath12k *ar, u32 vdev_id);
>>> +u8 ath12k_mac_get_target_pdev_id(struct ath12k *ar);
>>> +u8 ath12k_mac_get_target_pdev_id_from_vif(struct ath12k_vif *arvif);
>>> +struct ath12k_vif *ath12k_mac_get_vif_up(struct ath12k *ar);
>> 
>> AFAICS ath12k_mac_get_target_pdev_id_from_vif() and
>> ath12k_mac_get_vif_up() can be static, no need to add them to mac.h.
>
> Ah! Sure Kalle. I will take care.

Thanks.

>> So we are left with ath12k_mac_get_target_pdev_id() but I don't see it
>> called anywhere. Isn't that dead code we are adding?
>
> The wrapper is used by upcoming HTT stats and WMI control path stats
> support. Initially this change was added in the HTT stats infrastructure
> support series. Since WMI control path stats also depends on this patch,
> to eliminate the another patch series dependency, I pulled out this
> patch from HTT stats series.
> This wrapper will be used by below changes:
> HTT stats:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20240614063404.2659089-1-quic_rgnanase@quicinc.com/T/
> WMI control path stats:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20240529180920.1472003-1-quic_rgnanase@quicinc.com/
>
> WMI control path stats has to be rebased on this current patch. Since it
> is deferred, I refrained from sending v2.

Ok, you could for example mention this is in a comment after '---' line.
Adding dead code is usually suspicious.

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