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Re: [PATCH 1/3] brcmfmac: allow specifying features per firmware version

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On 5/22/2018 3:18 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Some features supported by firmware aren't advertised and there is no
way for a driver to query them. This includes e.g. monitor mode details.
Some firmwares support tagging monitor frames, some build radiotap
header but there is no way to detect it.

This commit adds table that will allow specifying features like:
{ "01-abcdef01", BIT(BRCMF_FEAT_FOO) }

I have my reservations taking this route. Full-dongle monitor mode is not very reliable especially when running it next to regular STA/AP interface due to memory constraints. So enabling a feature from host side could cause issues that are hard to debug. So I think it would be better if the cap iovar would get a new flag for this. Please hold this patch and let me discuss internally.

some more specific comments below...

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  .../wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c
index 876731c57bf5..1194d31d3902 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/feature.c
@@ -91,6 +91,28 @@ static int brcmf_feat_debugfs_read(struct seq_file *seq, void *data)
  }
  #endif /* DEBUG */

+struct brcmf_feat_fwfeat {
+	const char * const fwid;
+	u32 flags;

For consistency call this feat_flags as well.

+};
+
+static const struct brcmf_feat_fwfeat brcmf_feat_fwfeat_map[] = {
+};
+
+static void brcmf_feat_firmware_features(struct brcmf_pub *pub)

Try to keep name of the struct brcmf_pub instance 'drvr'. Maybe the function name could be brcmf_feat_firmware_overrides() instead.

Regards,
Arend



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