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| Series | wifi: mwifiex: added delay after firmware downloaded. | expand |
> From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:56 PM > To: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com> > Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > briannorris@chromium.org; kvalo@kernel.org; francesco@dolcini.it; Sharvari > Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@nxp.com>; Pete Hsieh > <tsung-hsien.hsieh@nxp.com> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: added delay after firmware > downloaded. > > Caution: This is an external email. Please take care when clicking links or > opening attachments. When in doubt, report the message using the 'Report > this email' button > > > Hello David, > thanks for your patch. > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 03:35:34AM +0000, David Lin wrote: > > Added 100 ms delayed after firmware is downloaded and active in order > > to avoid command timeout for the first command sent to firmware. > > Please have a look at Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. > In very brief: > - you should use imperative mood to describe your changes > - this is fixing a real issue, I believe this is worth a more complete commit > message, including a log of the failure this is solving. > > I am also inclined to think that this change should be backported and it likely > would need a Fixes: tag. > > > --- > > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c > > b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c > > index d99127dc466e..a25e8bb8daec 100644 > > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c > > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c > > @@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ static int _mwifiex_fw_dpc(const struct firmware > *firmware, void *context) > > goto err_dnld_fw; > > > > mwifiex_dbg(adapter, MSG, "WLAN FW is active\n"); > > + mdelay(100); > > from my understanding there is already a function polling for the firmware to > be active, e.g. mwifiex_check_fw_status(). Maybe is that function that needs > to be fixed instead of adding an additional delay here? > O.K. I will check the function to see if I can add this modification to the function. > Francesco
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c index d99127dc466e..a25e8bb8daec 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c @@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ static int _mwifiex_fw_dpc(const struct firmware *firmware, void *context) goto err_dnld_fw; mwifiex_dbg(adapter, MSG, "WLAN FW is active\n"); + mdelay(100); if (cal_data_cfg) { if ((request_firmware(&adapter->cal_data, cal_data_cfg,
Added 100 ms delayed after firmware is downloaded and active in order to avoid command timeout for the first command sent to firmware. Signed-off-by: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@nxp.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)