Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Migrate QRTR Nameservice to Kernel

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 05:18:01PM +0100, Daniele Palmas wrote:
> Hello Mani,
> 
> Il giorno gio 20 feb 2020 alle ore 16:15 Manivannan Sadhasivam
> <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This patchset migrates the Qualcomm IPC Router (QRTR) Nameservice from userspace
> > to kernel under net/qrtr.
> >
> 
> I saw those and the MHI driver related patches, thanks for doing them.
> 
> Are you going to submit also the controller and device (uci, netdev)
> drivers for SDX55 modem?
> 

This is certainly on the TODO list but there is no fixed timeline. Current
patchset focuses QCA6390 only, which does not need these drivers. So maybe
sometime later, we can expect these drivers to get upstreamed.

Thanks,
Mani

> Thanks,
> Daniele
> 
> > The userspace implementation of it can be found here:
> > https://github.com/andersson/qrtr/blob/master/src/ns.c
> >
> > This change is required for enabling the WiFi functionality of some Qualcomm
> > WLAN devices using ATH11K without any dependency on a userspace daemon. Since
> > the QRTR NS is not usually packed in most of the distros, users need to clone,
> > build and install it to get the WiFi working. It will become a hassle when the
> > user doesn't have any other source of network connectivity.
> >
> > The original userspace code is published under BSD3 license. For migrating it
> > to Linux kernel, I have adapted Dual BSD/GPL license.
> >
> > This patchset has been verified on Dragonboard410c and Intel NUC with QCA6390
> > WLAN device.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mani
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> >
> > * Sorted the local variables in reverse XMAS tree order
> >
> > Manivannan Sadhasivam (2):
> >   net: qrtr: Migrate nameservice to kernel from userspace
> >   net: qrtr: Fix the local node ID as 1
> >
> >  net/qrtr/Makefile |   2 +-
> >  net/qrtr/ns.c     | 751 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  net/qrtr/qrtr.c   |  51 +---
> >  net/qrtr/qrtr.h   |   4 +
> >  4 files changed, 767 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 net/qrtr/ns.c
> >
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >