Re: [PATCH v3] Bluetooth: Fix Bluetooth for BCM4377 on T2 Intel MacBooks

[Aditya Garg]

> On 28-Dec-2023, at 5:41 PM, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 10:46:57AM +0100, Sven Peter wrote:
> 
>>>> On Dec 27, 2023, at 11:30, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>>> The commit you tracked this down to restored the original semantics for
>>> HCI_QUIRK_USE_BDADDR_PROPERTY, which means that it should only be set
>>> for devices with an invalid address.
>>> 
>>> The Broadcom BCM4377 driver has so far been setting this flag
>>> unconditionally which now potentially results in also valid addresses
>>> being marked as invalid.
>>> 
>>> I've just sent a patch that makes sure to only mark invalid addresses as
>>> invalid:
>>> 
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231227101003.10534-1-johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>> 
>>> Note however that the flag still needs to be set in case your device
>>> lacks storage for a unique device address so you cannot simply drop it
>>> for some device classes as you do below (unless you are certain that
>>> these devices will always have a valid address).
> 
>> We do know that though.
>> 
>> BCM4377 is present on Apple’s x86 Macs and always has internal storage
>> for the address. If the board comes up without an address there’s nothing
>> much we can do because the address isn’t provided by ACPI or anything
>> else and setting the invalid address quirk for that situation seems appropriate.
>> 
>> BCM4378/4387 is present on Apple’s ARM Macs and never has internal storage.
>> The address is always provided by our bootloader in the device tree.
>> These should always unconditionally set HCI_QUIRK_USE_BDADDR_PROPERTY
>> just like this patch does.
> 
> Ok, good, then this patch and the one I posted are mostly equivalent
> assuming that the BCM4378/4387 return an invalid address during setup.
> 
> This patch may be preferred as it does not need to rely on such
> assumptions, though.
> 
> Johan

So what's the final take on this? Which one is gonna be merged upstream?