Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mwifiex: Make use of the new sdio_trigger_replug() API to reset

From: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Fenkart <afenkart@gmail.com>,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
	Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
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	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Avri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com>,
	Linux MMC List <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mwifiex: Make use of the new sdio_trigger_replug() API to reset
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:22:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD=FV=WAsrBV9PzUz1qPzQru+AkOYZ5hsaWdhNYRTNqUfDeOmQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190724113508.47A356021C@smtp.codeaurora.org>

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:35 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > As described in the patch ("mmc: core: Add sdio_trigger_replug()
> > API"), the current mwifiex_sdio_card_reset() is broken in the cases
> > where we're running Bluetooth on a second SDIO func on the same card
> > as WiFi.  The problem goes away if we just use the
> > sdio_trigger_replug() API call.
> >
> > NOTE: Even though with this new solution there is less of a reason to
> > do our work from a workqueue (the unplug / plug mechanism we're using
> > is possible for a human to perform at any time so the stack is
> > supposed to handle it without it needing to be called from a special
> > context), we still need a workqueue because the Marvell reset function
> > could called from a context where sleeping is invalid and thus we
> > can't claim the host.  One example is Marvell's wakeup_timer_fn().
> >
> > Cc: Andreas Fenkart <afenkart@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> > Fixes: b4336a282db8 ("mwifiex: sdio: reset adapter using mmc_hw_reset")
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
>
> I assume this is going via some other tree so I'm dropping this from my
> queue. If I should apply this please resend once the dependency is in
> wireless-drivers-next.
>
> Patch set to Not Applicable.

Thanks.  For now I'll assume that Ulf will pick it up if/when he is
happy with patch #1 in this series.  Would you be willing to provide
your Ack on this patch to make it clear to Ulf you're OK with that?

-Doug