Re: [PATCH] usb: renesas-xhci: Prefer firmware loading on unknown ROM state

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 01:55:54PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:50:13 +0200,
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:34:27PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > The recent attempt to handle an unknown ROM state in the commit
> > > d143825baf15 ("usb: renesas-xhci: Fix handling of unknown ROM state")
> > > resulted in a regression and reverted later by the commit 44cf53602f5a
> > > ("Revert "usb: renesas-xhci: Fix handling of unknown ROM state"").
> > > The problem of the former fix was that it treated the failure of
> > > firmware loading as a fatal error.  Since the firmware files aren't
> > > included in the standard linux-firmware tree, most users don't have
> > > them, hence they got the non-working system after that.  The revert
> > > fixed the regression, but also it didn't make the firmware loading
> > > triggered even on the devices that do need it.  So we need still a fix
> > > for them.
> > > 
> > > This is another attempt to handle the unknown ROM state.  Like the
> > > previous fix, this also tries to load the firmware when ROM shows
> > > unknown state.  In this patch, however, the failure of a firmware
> > > loading (such as a missing firmware file) isn't handled as a fatal
> > > error any longer when ROM has been already detected, but it falls back
> > > to the ROM mode like before.  The error is returned only when no ROM
> > > is detected and the firmware loading failed.
> > > 
> > > Along with it, for simplifying the code flow, the detection and the
> > > check of ROM is factored out from renesas_fw_check_running() and done
> > > in the caller side, renesas_xhci_check_request_fw().  It avoids the
> > > redundant ROM checks.
> > > 
> > > The patch was tested on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 gen (BIOS 1.34).  Also it
> > > was confirmed that no regression is seen on another Thinkpad T14
> > > machine that has worked without the patch, too.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 44cf53602f5a ("Revert "usb: renesas-xhci: Fix handling of unknown ROM state"")
> > > BugLink: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189207
> > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci-renesas.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------
> > >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > This does not apply to my usb-linus branch, are you sure it is still
> > needed in Linus's tree right now?
> 
> I guess we can postpone for 5.15.  The patch was written for the code
> on linux-next, and I see there have been a few code clean up there.
> 
> But the patch itself could be applied to Linus tree with a slight
> fuzz, so the stable backport should be fine.
> 
> If it's still not cleanly applicable, let me know.  I'll refresh the
> patch for whatever preferred branch.

It was not cleanly applicable, 'git am' did not like it against my
usb-linus branch (which is 5.14-rc7 + a few other USB patches not in
this driver).

So if you want to rebase it against that, I will be glad to take it for
5.14-final to resolve this issue.

thanks,

greg k-h