On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 00:38, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:59:41PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote: > > There are firmware versions which do not support host capability > > QMI request. We suspect either the host cap is not implemented or > > there may be firmware specific issues, but apparently there seem > > to be a generation of firmware that has this particular behavior. > > > > For example, firmware build on Xiaomi Poco F1 (sdm845) phone: > > "QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=WLAN.HL.2.0.c3-00257-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1" > > > > If we do not skip the host cap QMI request on Poco F1, then we > > get a QMI_ERR_MALFORMED_MSG_V01 error message in the > > ath10k_qmi_host_cap_send_sync(). But this error message is not > > fatal to the firmware nor to the ath10k driver and we can still > > bring up the WiFi services successfully if we just ignore it. > > > > Hence introducing this DeviceTree quirk to skip host capability > > QMI request for the firmware versions which do not support this > > feature. > > So if you change the WiFi firmware, you may force a DT change too. Those > are pretty independent things otherwise. This is a valid concern and I'm not sure about the other devices, but on PocoF1 I have tried all the three released firmware version updates: WLAN.HL.2.0.c3-00257-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1 WLAN.HL.2.0.c3-00445-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1 WLAN.HL.2.0.c3-00534-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1 and none of them works without this skip host-cap patch or equivalent hack. PocoF1 is already 2+ years old device and sadly I do not expect any major vendor update coming its way. > > Why can't you just always ignore this error? If you can't deal with this > entirely in the driver, then it should be part of the WiFi firmware so > it's always in sync. I don't know the technical details of the ath10k/qmi driver, but I'm OK if we just ignore the return value of ath10k_qmi_host_cap_send_sync() and move along. Regards, Amit Pundir > > Rob
