Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k: add new DT entry for board ID

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
To: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org, ath11k@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Devicetree List <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k: add new DT entry for board ID
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:55:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60ee4aa5-4fef-24e0-0ccf-b93eee1db876@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOX2RU6fBo5f6cxAUgLKj3j+_oP7nSm7awCpr_yiO_p3NssWkQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 21/06/2022 20:47, Robert Marko wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 17:58, Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 21/06/2022 15:53, Robert Marko wrote:
>>> bus + qmi-chip-id + qmi-board-id and optionally the variant are currently
>>> used for identifying the correct board data file.
>>>
>>> This however is sometimes not enough as all of the IPQ8074 boards that I
>>> have access to dont have the qmi-board-id properly fused and simply return
>>> the default value of 0xFF.
>>>
>>> So, to provide the correct qmi-board-id add a new DT property that allows
>>> the qmi-board-id to be overridden from DTS in cases where its not set.
>>> This is what vendors have been doing in the stock firmwares that were
>>> shipped on boards I have.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
>>
>> Thank you for your patch. There is something to discuss/improve.
>>
>>> ---
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml     | 8 ++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml
>>> index a677b056f112..fe6aafdab9d4 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml
>>> @@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ properties:
>>>          * reg
>>>          * reg-names
>>>
>>> +  qcom,ath11k-board-id:
>>
>> The "board" a bit confuses me because in the context of entire system it
>> means the entire hardware running Qualcomm SoC. This is sometimes
>> encoded as qcom,board-id property.
> 
> Hi Krzysztof,
> I agree that the name is a bit confusing, it's not the same as
> qcom,board-id AFAIK
> and QCA as well as vendors are using a similar property in the wifi
> node to override
> the default qmi-board-id to the correct one as its rarely properly fused.
> 
> I assume it would be better-called qcom,ath11k-qmi-board-id as you
> dont even have
> to be using a Qualcomm SoC as the same is used by PCI ath11k cards as well.
> 

Thanks for the explanation. What is the "board" in that context? The
card/hardware with ath11k? Then maybe qcom,ath11k-qmi-id or
qcom,ath11k-qmi-hw-id?

Best regards,
Krzysztof