Re: [PATCH v1 0/1] Enable subsystem restart for Qualcomm bluetooth chip wcn3990.

[Balakrishna Godavarthi]

Forgot to add this patch is on top of
Following patches. Which are under review

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10510029/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10510031/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10510037/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10510045/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10510033/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10510051/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10510047/

On 2018-07-09 21:46, Balakrishna Godavarthi wrote:
> In many platforms Bluetooth chip wcn3990 is a discrete chip connected
> via UART lines to app processor. if the chip goes into bad state
> i.e. into hard fault exception routine, which will not further respond
> to any commands from HOST via UART. In that case wcn3390 will intimate
> HOST by generating hardware error. Host stack will initiate a close
> and reopen of the hci driver. Prior to sending hard ware error, wcn3990
> has a capability of sending the RAM dump i.e. memory dump of the BT 
> chip.
> this will help us to fix stability issues of the SoC. We at QCA driver
> read the dump packets and store via devcoredump().
> We perform restart after collecting the ram dump of the SoC.
>
>
> Harish Bandi (1):
>   Bluetooth: hci_qca: Sub system restart support for WCN3990
>
>  drivers/bluetooth/btqca.h   |   8 ++
>  drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c | 261 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 269 insertions(+)

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Regards
Balakrishna.