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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	smohanad@codeaurora.org, Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	hemantk@codeaurora.org,
	linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] docs: Add documentation for MHI bus
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:58:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3Nxr3yqDjZDV1b0e0mdWEEsktwrmKXxZgsnq7Kv82mhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200123111836.7414-2-manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:18 PM Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> wrote:
> +============
> +MHI Topology
> +============
> +
> +This document provides information about the MHI topology modeling and
> +representation in the kernel.
> +
> +MHI Controller
> +--------------
> +
> +MHI controller driver manages the interaction with the MHI client devices
> +such as the external modems and WiFi chipsets. It is also the MHI bus master
> +which is in charge of managing the physical link between the host and device.
> +It is however not involved in the actual data transfer as the data transfer
> +is taken care by the physical bus such as PCIe. Each controller driver exposes
> +channels and events based on the client device type.
> +
> +Below are the roles of the MHI controller driver:
> +
> +* Turns on the physical bus and establishes the link to the device
> +* Configures IRQs, SMMU, and IOMEM
> +* Allocates struct mhi_controller and registers with the MHI bus framework
> +  with channel and event configurations using mhi_register_controller.
> +* Initiates power on and shutdown sequence
> +* Initiates suspend and resume power management operations of the device.

I don't see any callers of mhi_register_controller(). Did I just miss it or did
you not post one? I'm particularly interested in where the configuration comes
from, is this hardcoded in the driver, or parsed from firmware or from registers
in the hardware itself?

        Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-23 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-23 11:18 [PATCH 00/16] Add MHI bus support Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 01/16] docs: Add documentation for MHI bus Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 12:58   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2020-01-23 13:10     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 13:19       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-23 13:30         ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 14:52           ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-23 16:41   ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-27 12:02     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 02/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for registering MHI controllers Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:33   ` Greg KH
2020-01-23 11:56     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 17:05   ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-23 18:14     ` Greg KH
2020-01-26 23:58     ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-28  7:19       ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-27 11:56     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-27 14:52       ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-28  6:37         ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-28  7:24           ` Greg KH
2020-01-28  7:27             ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-24  8:29   ` Greg KH
2020-01-24 14:24     ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-24 17:47       ` Greg KH
2020-01-24 18:12         ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-25 13:26           ` Greg KH
2020-01-26 21:00             ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-27  7:02       ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-27  7:11         ` Greg KH
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 03/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for registering MHI client drivers Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 04/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for creating and destroying MHI devices Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 05/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for ringing channel/event ring doorbells Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:39   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-23 12:00     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 12:44       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-23 13:01         ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 14:44       ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-24 22:51   ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-25 13:46     ` Greg KH
2020-01-27  7:10       ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-27  7:21         ` Greg KH
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 06/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for PM state transitions Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 07/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for basic PM operations Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 08/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for downloading firmware over BHIe Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-28 19:36   ` Jeffrey Hugo
2020-01-29  6:56     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 09/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for downloading RDDM image during panic Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 10/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for processing events from client device Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 11/16] bus: mhi: core: Add support for data transfer Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 12/16] bus: mhi: core: Add uevent support for module autoloading Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 13/16] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for MHI bus Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 14/16] net: qrtr: Add MHI transport layer Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 15/16] net: qrtr: Do not depend on ARCH_QCOM Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:18 ` [PATCH 16/16] soc: qcom: Do not depend on ARCH_QCOM for QMI helpers Manivannan Sadhasivam
2020-01-23 11:45   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-23 12:03     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam

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