Re: [PATCH v7] Bluetooth: btwilink driver

[Gustavo F. Padovan]

Hi Pavan,

* Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@xxxxxx> [2010-11-30 21:30:47 +0530]:

> Gustavo,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Gustavo F. Padovan
> <padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Pavan,
> >
> > * pavan_savoy@xxxxxx <pavan_savoy@xxxxxx> [2010-11-26 04:20:57 -0500]:
> >
> >> From: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@xxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Marcel, Gustavo,
> >>
> >> comments attended to from v5 and v6,
> >>
> >> 1. Inside ti_st_open, I previously only checked for EINPROGRESS & EPERM,
> >> Now I handle for EINPROGRESS - which is not really an error and
> >> return during all other error cases.
> >>
> >> 2. _write is still a function pointer and not an exported function, I
> >> need to change the underlying driver's code for this.
> >> However, previous lkml comments on the underlying driver's code
> >> suggested it to be kept as a function pointer and not EXPORT.
> >> Gustavo, Marcel - Please comment on this.
> >> Is this absolutely required? If so why?
> >>
> >> 3. test_and_set_bit of HCI_RUNNING is done at beginning of
> >> ti_st_open, and did not see issues during firmware download.
> >> However ideally I would still like to set HCI_RUNNING once the firmware
> >> download is done, because I don't want to allow a _send_frame during
> >> firmware download - Marcel, Gustavo - Please comment.
> >>
> >> 4. test_and_clear of HCI_RUNNING now done @ beginning of close.
> >>
> >> 5. EAGAIN on failure of st_write is to suggest to try and write again.
> >> I have never this happen - However only if UART goes bad this case may
> >> occur.
> >>
> >> 6. ti_st_tx_complete is very similar to hci_ldisc's tx_complete - in
> >> fact the code is pretty much borrowed from there.
> >> Marcel, Gustavo - Please suggest where should it be done? If not here.
> >>
> >> 7. comments cleaned-up + hst memory leak fixed when hci_alloc_dev fails.
> >>
> >> 8. platform_driver registration inside module_init now is similar to
> >> other drivers.
> >>
> >> 9. Dan Carpenter's comments on leaking hst memory on failed
> >> hci_register_dev and empty space after quotes in debug statements
> >> fixed.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the comments...
> >> Sorry, for previously not being very clear on which comments were
> >> handled and which were not.
> >>
> >> -- patch description --
> >>
> >> This is the bluetooth protocol driver for the TI WiLink7 chipsets.
> >> Texas Instrument's WiLink chipsets combine wireless technologies
> >> like BT, FM, GPS and WLAN onto a single chip.
> >>
> >> This Bluetooth driver works on top of the TI_ST shared transport
> >> line discipline driver which also allows other drivers like
> >> FM V4L2 and GPS character driver to make use of the same UART interface.
> >>
> >> Kconfig and Makefile modifications to enable the Bluetooth
> >> driver for Texas Instrument's WiLink 7 chipset.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@xxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/bluetooth/Kconfig    |   10 ++
> >>  drivers/bluetooth/Makefile   |    1 +
> >>  drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.c |  363 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  3 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>  create mode 100644 drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.c
> >
> > So as part of reviewing this I took a look at your underlying driver and
> > I didn't like what I saw there, you are handling Bluetooth stuff inside
> > the core driver and that is just wrong. You have a Bluetooth driver here
> > then you have to leave the Bluetooth data handling to the Bluetooth
> > driver and do not do that in the core.
> 
> Thanks for reviewing this and the underlying driver.
> yes, we do have Bluetooth/FM/GPS handling inside the TI ST driver, on
> addition of further technologies
> we do plan to have them inside the ST driver too.
> 
> The understanding of BT or FM or GPS is required for the ST driver
> because, the data coming from the chip
> can either be of these technologies, further-more the data might not
> come in a set.
> As in, an a2dp/ftp ACL frame might come in 2 frames instead of 1, and
> in other cases,
> there might be a HCI-EVENT + FM CH8 data in a single frame received by the UART.

Can't you differentiate Bluetooth data in a generic way, withou looking if it
is ACL, SCO or HCI EVENT? That done, you can just accumulate in a buffer all
the Bluetooth data you received in that stream then send it to Bluetooth
driver after finish that stream processing.

-- 
Gustavo F. Padovan
http://profusion.mobi
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