Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mwifiex: pcie: add reset_d3cold quirk for Surface gen4+ devices

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:18 PM Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 09 July 2021 16:58:31 Jonas Dreßler wrote:


> Hello! Now I'm thinking loudly about this patch. Why this kind of reset
> is needed only for Surface devices? AFAIK these 88W8897 chips are same
> in all cards. Chip itself implements PCIe interface (and also SDIO) so
> for me looks very strange if this 88W8897 PCIe device needs DMI specific
> quirks. I cannot believe that Microsoft got some special version of
> these chips from Marvell which are different than version uses on cards
> in mPCIe form factor.
>
> And now when I'm reading comment below about PCIe bridge to which is
> this 88W8897 PCIe chip connected, is not this rather an issue in that
> PCIe bridge (instead of mwifiex/88W8897) or in ACPI firmware which
> controls this bridge?
>
> Or are having other people same issues on mPCIe form factor wifi cards
> with 88W8897 chips and then this quirk should not DMI dependent?
>
> Note that I'm seeing issues with reset and other things also on chip
> 88W8997 when is connected to system via SDIO. These chips have both PCIe
> and SDIO buses, it just depends which pins are used.

I'm replying loudly :-)

You know that depending on the interface the firmware even for the
same chip may be way different. And if you have had any experience
working in product companies you should know well that bug in product
X is not gonna be fixed if it was not reported, but gets fixed on
product Y due to that. Besides that, how do you know that MS has not
been given the special edition of the FW?

As icing on the cake, the Marvell has been bought and I believe they
abandoned their products quite a while ago. You may read kernel
bugzilla for the details (last Marvell developer who answered to the
reports seems has no clue about the driver).

All that said, I believe that we have to follow whatever fixes we
would have and be thankful to contributors and testers.

For the record, I've been suffering from the Linux driver of this
hardware for a while. And I'm fully in support of any quirks that will
help UX.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko