On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 12:28:45PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Historically all commands sent to the mwifiex driver have been
> > asynchronous. The different commands sent during driver initialization
> > have been queued at once and only the final command has been waited
> > for being ready before finally starting the driver.
> >
> > This has been changed in 7bff9c974e1a ("mwifiex: send firmware
> > initialization commands synchronously").
>
> > With this the initialization is finished once the last
> > mwifiex_send_cmd_sync() (now mwifiex_send_cmd()) has returned.
>
> Just for me, the rename/refactor happened in commit fa0ecbb9905d
> ("mwifiex: remove global variable cmd_wait_q_required"), in v3.14.
>
>
> > This makes all the code used to wait for the last initialization
> > command to be finished unnecessary, so it's removed in this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c | 16 ----------------
> > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/init.c | 5 +++--
> > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c | 12 ++----------
> > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h | 6 ------
> > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmd.c | 4 ----
> > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/util.c | 18 ------------------
> > 6 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
> > index 5573e2ded72f2..c07857c49a713 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
> > @@ -900,18 +900,6 @@ int mwifiex_process_cmdresp(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
> > ret = mwifiex_process_sta_cmdresp(priv, cmdresp_no, resp);
> > }
> >
> > - /* Check init command response */
> > - if (adapter->hw_status == MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_INITIALIZING) {
>
> What about the code path from mwifiex_add_card()?
>
> mwifiex_add_card()
> -> hw_status = MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_INITIALIZING
> -> mwifiex_init_hw_fw(adapter, true))
> -> request_firmware_nowait(..., mwifiex_fw_dpc)
>
> mwifiex_fw_dpc()
> ...
> -> mwifiex_init_fw()
> -> adapter->hw_status = MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_READY
>
> mwifiex_fw_dpc() is called asynchronously, is everything as safe as
> before, here?
Yes, mwifiex_fw_dpc() is called asynchronously, but the first change in
my patch is in mwifiex_init_fw() which is already called asynchronously,
so my patch doesn't really change anything here.
Sascha
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