[PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Add protocol versioning checks

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Dec 4 05:49:12 PST 2023


On Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:58:58 +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> Platform and agent supported protocols versions do not necessarily match.
>
> When talking to an older platform SCMI server, supporting only older
> protocol versions, the kernel SCMI agent will downgrade the version of
> the used protocol to match the platform one and avoid compatibility issues.
>
> In the case, instead, in which the agent happens to communicate with a
> newer platform server which can support newer protocol versions unknown to
> the agent, and potentially backward incompatible, the agent currently
> carries on, silently, in a best-effort approach.
>
> [...]

Applied to sudeep.holla/linux (for-next/scmi/updates), thanks!

[1/1] firmware: arm_scmi: Add protocol versioning checks
      https://git.kernel.org/sudeep.holla/c/b5efc28a754d
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Regards,
Sudeep




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