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From: <Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com>
To: <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	<Adham.Abozaeid@microchip.com>, <Venkateswara.Kaja@microchip.com>,
	<Nicolas.Ferre@microchip.com>, <Claudiu.Beznea@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/16] wilc1000: add wilc_hif.c
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:52:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82d35fcf-15f0-4b8a-20a9-3f50b0541651@microchip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6bb8a8b61ebbca40611dee07e4980a792bf2386.camel@sipsolutions.net>



On 7/12/2019 1:12 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
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> 
> 
>> +struct wilc_set_multicast {
>> +	u32 enabled;
>> +	u32 cnt;
>> +	u8 *mc_list;
>> +};
>> +
>> +struct wilc_del_all_sta {
>> +	u8 assoc_sta;
>> +	u8 mac[WILC_MAX_NUM_STA][ETH_ALEN];
>> +};
>> +
>> +struct wilc_op_mode {
>> +	__le32 mode;
>> +};
>> +
>> +struct wilc_reg_frame {
>> +	bool reg;
>> +	u8 reg_id;
>> +	__le16 frame_type;
>> +} __packed;
> 
> 'bool' is a pretty bad idea, there's no storage guarantee for it. Use u8
> instead, especially in a firmware struct.
> 
> But overall, if I remember correctly, this is a massive improvement,
> last time I looked I think you basically had something like
> 
> char msg[10];
> int i = 0;
> msg[i++] = reg;
> msg[i++] = reg_id;
> msg[i++] = frame_type >> 8;
> msg[i++] = (u8)frame_type;
> 
> so obviously this is *much* better.
> 
> I still think you'd benefit from putting the firmware API structs into a
> separate include file so you can differentiate them, but YMMV.
> 
>> +int wilc_scan(struct wilc_vif *vif, u8 scan_source, u8 scan_type,
>> +	      u8 *ch_freq_list, u8 ch_list_len,
>> +	      void (*scan_result_fn)(enum scan_event,
>> +				     struct wilc_rcvd_net_info *, void *),
>> +	      void *user_arg, struct cfg80211_scan_request *request)
>> +{
>> +	int result = 0;
>> +	struct wid wid_list[5];
> 
>> +	wid_list[index].id = WID_INFO_ELEMENT_PROBE;
>> +	wid_list[index].type = WID_BIN_DATA;
>> +	wid_list[index].val = (s8 *)request->ie;
>> +	wid_list[index].size = request->ie_len;
>> +	index++;
>> +
>> +	wid_list[index].id = WID_SCAN_TYPE;
>> +	wid_list[index].type = WID_CHAR;
>> +	wid_list[index].size = sizeof(char);
>> +	wid_list[index].val = (s8 *)&scan_type;
>> +	index++;
> 
> 
> I still find this whole wid_list stuff to be a bit confusing, especially
> since it looks like a *firmware* thing but then you have the *host
> pointer* inside the value ...
> 
> There must be a translation layer somewhere, but I can't help but wonder
> if that's really worth the complexity, vs. just building the right thing
> directly here (with some helpers perhaps).
>

The translation to firmware buffer happens in wilc_wlan_cfg_set() and
wilc_wlan_cfg_commit() adds a single *wilc_cfg_cmd_hdr* header before
sending to firmware.

There are two ways to send the wid's from host to firmware.

1/ Single Wid -> In this case, single wid is sent by adding
*wilc_cfg_cmd_hdr* in single command buffer to firmware.
i.e <wilc_cfg_cmd_hdr><wid1>

2/ Mutliple Wid's -> In this case, multiple wid's are clubbled together
and sent in single command buffer.
e.g. <wilc_cfg_cmd_hdr><wid1><wid2><wid3>
As the firmware is design to receive configuration under different
WID's, so it is required from the host side to club these parameters
whenever data is related.

Currently, wilc_send_config_pkt() is provided as helper API to construct
buffer based on passed *wids* and *counts*. This will avoid adding
similar logic in multiple places.

Regards,
Ajay

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-12 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-12  1:58 [PATCH v2 00/16] wilc1000: move out of staging Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:58 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] wilc1000: add wilc_hif.h Ajay.Kathat
2019-10-23 10:03   ` Kalle Valo
     [not found]   ` <20191023100312.B1D2760A7E@smtp.codeaurora.org>
2019-10-29  3:06     ` Adham.Abozaeid
2019-07-12  1:58 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] wilc1000: add wilc_hif.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  7:42   ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-12 14:52     ` Ajay.Kathat [this message]
2019-07-12  1:58 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wlan_if.h Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:58 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wlan_cfg.h Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:58 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wlan_cfg.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  7:31   ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-12 10:58     ` Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:58 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wfi_netdevice.h Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.h Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] wilc1000: add wilc_netdev.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] wilc1000: add wilc_mon.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] wilc1000: add wilc_spi.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wlan.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] wilc1000: add wilc_wlan.h Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] wilc1000: add wilc_sdio.c Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] wilc1000: updated DT device binding for wilc1000 device Ajay.Kathat
2019-07-12  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] wilc1000: add Makefile and Kconfig files for wilc1000 compilation Ajay.Kathat

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