Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] Bluetooth: mediatek: Add protocol support for MediaTek serial devices

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Sean,

>>>> this is even more hackish since the __hci_cmd_sync_ev command is really meant to get a cmd status first before waiting for that event.
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>>> Understood.
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>>> I've stopped the hack in v8. could we merge v8 first ? and then I will a fix up with __hci_raw_sync_ev that uses the hdev->raw_q instead of __hci_cmd_sync_ev in TODO.
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>> so I looked into this a bit more. We actually added __hci_cmd_send for a Qualcomm firmware loader that was doing something similar. So instead of trying to add a yet another command to the core, I actually used that and implemented the wait for vendor event in the driver.
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>> You will see my v9 on the mailing list. I also did a bunch of cosmetic minor cleanup and spelling correction. Please test this version. I also make __le16 dlen instead of dlen1 + dlen2 since I think that is what your hardware does.
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> Only one thing needs to be corrected in v9. that is __be16 is required instead of dlen1 + dlen2. I will fix it up in v10 and the other changes all look good to me.
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>> If this version of the driver works for you then I am happy to merge it. You can then add support for hdev->set_bdaddr and hdev->set_diag in later patches. I also like to clean up the STP receive handler since it can be done a lot simpler and smaller, but that has to wait.
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> hopefully v10 also can be merged :)

send me a v10 and I can merge it.

> I will investigate more about how to add ->set_bdaddr, ->set_diag and STP receive enhancement in later patches.
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> but so far I have not much idea about how to make STP multiplexer be a independent driver.
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> my thought is that it would be really better and cleaner a chain of serdev is be used as the base of mtkbtuart. something like
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> 8250 serial bus <----> STP multiplexer serdev <----> mtkbtuart serdev
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> however, STP multiplexer serdev is not a real device, that doesn't no request any resource. I think it should not be allowed to be added in a device tree and even in dt-binding document.

Before we do that, lets get a cleaner parser for it. I just donât have enough time to wrap my head around this one yet.

>>>> Are all Mediatek vendor commands this way? Or just the ones for loading the firmware? So only the WMT ones?
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>>> Only the WMT ones, WMT commands/events are usually used in system controlling, for example, global function on/off, firmware download, reset and so on. most only appear on device initialization
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>> Since you never checked the result of the vendor event, I opted for just signaling that it arrived. If they can report success or failure, we need to add some extra code for that.
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> I will consider more WMT event status when I add more Bluetooth devices such as MT7668U usb based Bluetooth which I plan to add the support in later patches in the next weeks 

Are the USB ones also using STP or are they H:2 based like all the others. What are prominent MT7668U based ones that I could buy?

Regards

Marcel