From: <Adham.Abozaeid@microchip.com>
To: <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, <Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com>,
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
<Ganesh.Krishna@microchip.com>, <Aditya.Shankar@microchip.com>,
<Venkateswara.Kaja@microchip.com>, <Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/19] wilc: add host_interface.c
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:08:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5BC11B3B.20901@microchip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539241314.3687.190.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 10/11/2018 12:01 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> Agree. parameter validation can be done before scheduling the work,
>> and hence appropriate error can be returned to caller .
>
>
>> If I got your point correctly, you are referring to the lines that
>> stores the parameters into the hif_drv->cfg_values.
>
> Well, I was actually thinking that I'm not even sure why you schedule
> work at all!
Do you mean we should be doing the work from the cfg context?
Note that this is called cfg80211_ops.set_wiphy_params(), and involves locking mutexes, packing the wids, bus operations, and waiting for the device to respond.
>> Instead of packing the parameters in host structures like struct
>> add_sta_param, then repacking it in the device format, it can use
>> struct station_parameters and pack them directly into the device
>> format
>
> Makes sense. Also note my other email on how there should be structs
> involved, rather than open-coded WID entry lists.
Thanks for the suggestion. I agree to that as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-12 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 10:25 [RFC 00/19] wilc: added driver for wilc module Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 01/19] wilc: add coreconfigurator.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 02/19] wilc: add coreconfigurator.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:16 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 9:42 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 10:05 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 03/19] wilc: add host_interface.h Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:20 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 10:34 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 10:36 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 11:44 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 11:46 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 12:18 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-09 18:36 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-09 19:14 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 20:01 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-09 20:02 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 20:06 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 14:56 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-30 3:20 ` Ajay.Kathat
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 04/19] wilc: add host_interface.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:31 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-10 20:06 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-11 7:01 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-12 22:08 ` Adham.Abozaeid [this message]
2018-10-18 8:23 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-18 18:30 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-19 7:02 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-19 20:53 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 20:10 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-29 21:32 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 21:33 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 6:57 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-10 20:14 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-12 21:55 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-18 8:23 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 05/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan_if.h Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:33 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 6:59 ` Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 06/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan_cfg.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 07/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan_cfg.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 08/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 09/19] wilc: add wilc_wlan.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 10/19] wilc: add wilc_wfi_netdevice.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 11/19] wilc: add wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.h Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 12/19] wilc: add wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 4:23 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-09 7:55 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-09 17:15 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-19 21:47 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-10-29 20:11 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-29 21:43 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 13/19] wilc: add linux_wlan.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:41 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 7:00 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-11 7:03 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 7:26 ` Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 14/19] wilc: add linux_mon.c Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 14:44 ` Johannes Berg
2018-10-11 7:12 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-11 7:15 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 15/19] wilc: add wilc_spi.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 16/19] wilc: add wilc_sdio.c Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 17/19] wilc: updated DT device binding for wilc device Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 18/19] wilc: add Makefile and Kconfig files for wilc compilation Ajay Singh
2018-09-26 10:25 ` [PATCH 19/19] wilc: added wilc module compilation in wireless Makefile & Kconfig Ajay Singh
2018-10-06 12:45 ` [RFC 00/19] wilc: added driver for wilc module Kalle Valo
2018-10-08 5:17 ` Ajay Singh
2018-10-08 7:38 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-08 18:34 ` Adham.Abozaeid
2018-11-15 14:11 ` Kalle Valo
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