Re: [RFCv2 9/9] caif-xshm: Add CAIF driver for Shared memory forM7400

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Fri Dec 02 2011 - 06:50:13 EST


A few minor comments follow. They're basically identical to some of my
comments on v1 of 8/9 ("xshm: Makefile and Kconfig for M7400 Shared
Memory Drivers"). I guess I just didn't spot these the first time.

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 20:39 +0100, Sjur BrÃndeland wrote:
> This patch introduces a caif shared memory link layer driver
> for ST-Ericsson's Thor M7400 LTE modem.
>
> M7400 uses a ring-buffer in shared memory for transporting data from the modem.
> Each ring-buffer element contains an array of caif frames. caif_xshm calls
> napi_schedule() when receiving notification about incoming data.
> The napi-poll function copies data from the ring-buffer to SKBs until
> ring-buffer is empty, or quota is exceeded.
>
> If transmit ring-buffer is full, it also uses napi for scheduling transmission
> of queued transmit buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sjur BrÃndeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/net/caif/Kconfig | 10 +
> drivers/net/caif/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/net/caif/caif_xshm.c | 935 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 946 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/caif/caif_xshm.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/caif/Kconfig b/drivers/net/caif/Kconfig
> index abf4d7a..2861374 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/caif/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/caif/Kconfig
> @@ -47,3 +47,13 @@ config CAIF_HSI
> The caif low level driver for CAIF over HSI.
> Be aware that if you enable this then you also need to
> enable a low-level HSI driver.
> +
> +config CAIF_XSHM
> + tristate "CAIF external memory protocol driver"
> + depends on XSHM && CAIF
> + default n
> + ---help---
> + Say "yes" if you want to support CAIF over External Shared Memory (XSHM)

"Say Y"?

> + IPC mechanism (e.g. over Chip to Chip).
> + This will normally be built-in, loadable module is used for testing.

Perhaps something like: "Only say M here if you want to test CAIF over
XSHM and need to load and unload its module."?

> + If unsure say N.
[...]


Paul Bolle

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