Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus: mhi: Remove auto-start option

From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:27:57 +0530

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:55:19PM +0800, Carl Huang wrote:
> On 2020-11-18 17:31, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:43:48AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > > Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email-masked]> writes:
> > > 
> > > > From: Loic Poulain <[email-masked]>
> > > >
> > > > There is really no point having an auto-start for channels.
> > > > This is confusing for the device drivers, some have to enable the
> > > > channels, others don't have... and waste resources (e.g. pre allocated
> > > > buffers) that may never be used.
> > > >
> > > > This is really up to the MHI device(channel) driver to manage the state
> > > > of its channels.
> > > >
> > > > While at it, let's also remove the auto-start option from ath11k mhi
> > > > controller.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <[email-masked]>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email-masked]>
> > > > [mani: clubbed ath11k change]
> > > > Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email-masked]>
> > > 
> > > Thanks and feel free to take this to the immutable branch:
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Patch applied to mhi-ath11k-immutable branch and merged into mhi-next.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mani
> > 
> Does net/qrtr/mhi.c need changes? I guess now net/qrtr/mhi.c needs to call
> mhi_prepare_for_transfer() before transfer.
> 

Yes and the patch is also applied:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mani/mhi.git/commit/?h=mhi-ath11k-immutable&id=a2e2cc0dbb1121dfa875da1c04f3dff966fec162

Thanks,
Mani

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