RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: added delay after firmware downloaded.

[David Lin]

> From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:56 PM
> To: David Lin <yu-hao.lin@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx; kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx; francesco@xxxxxxxxxx; Sharvari
> Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@xxxxxxx>; Pete Hsieh
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] wifi: mwifiex: added delay after firmware
> downloaded.
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> 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