Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath10k: avoid unnecessary wait for service ready message

[Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan]

On 8/11/2025 2:56 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
> Commit e57b7d62a1b2 ("wifi: ath10k: poll service ready message before
> failing") works around the failure in waiting for the service ready
> message by active polling. Note the polling is triggered after initial
> wait timeout, which means that the wait-till-timeout can not be avoided
> even the message is ready.
>
> A possible fix is to do polling once before wait as well, however this
> can not handle the race that the message arrives right after polling.
> So the solution is to do periodic polling until timeout.
>
> Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00309-QCARMSWPZ-1
>
> Fixes: e57b7d62a1b2 ("wifi: ath10k: poll service ready message before failing")
> Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/97a15967-5518-4731-a8ff-d43ff7f437b0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>