Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] net: qrtr: Assign unique node id for MHI endpoints

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 01:46:34PM +0100, Youssef Samir wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 4:58 PM Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 04:03:38PM +0100, Youssef Samir wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 6:24 PM Juha-Matti Tilli
> > > <juha-matti.tilli@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026, at 20:14, Youssef Samir wrote:
> > > > > On 9/21/2026 12:23 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay wrote:
> > > > > > +
> > > The chance of collision is slim, but still not impossible.
> >
> > When you mean collision, do you mean node id collision due to bridged nodes?
> > Because, even if the directly connected QAIC devices use 32bit node ids, the
> > collision won't affect the functionality.
> As in ep_nid of one device matching the nid of another device. In MHI,
> that shouldn't
> really matter since this patch moves away from using QRTR_EP_NID_AUTO in node
> assignment, but as you mentioned below, it could clash with TUN and SMD EPs that
> are already registered with their ep_nid.

Ok, this clarifies. But as I mentioned before, there is no current
usecase/requirement to support attaching identical SMD/TUN devices. When the
requirement arises, we can extend this node id assignment scheme to global or
some other method.

- Mani

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