Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k: add new DT entry for board ID

[Robert Marko]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 17:58, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 21/06/2022 15:53, Robert Marko wrote:
> > bus + qmi-chip-id + qmi-board-id and optionally the variant are currently
> > used for identifying the correct board data file.
> >
> > This however is sometimes not enough as all of the IPQ8074 boards that I
> > have access to dont have the qmi-board-id properly fused and simply return
> > the default value of 0xFF.
> >
> > So, to provide the correct qmi-board-id add a new DT property that allows
> > the qmi-board-id to be overridden from DTS in cases where its not set.
> > This is what vendors have been doing in the stock firmwares that were
> > shipped on boards I have.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you for your patch. There is something to discuss/improve.
>
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml     | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml
> > index a677b056f112..fe6aafdab9d4 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml
> > @@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ properties:
> >          * reg
> >          * reg-names
> >
> > +  qcom,ath11k-board-id:
>
> The "board" a bit confuses me because in the context of entire system it
> means the entire hardware running Qualcomm SoC. This is sometimes
> encoded as qcom,board-id property.

Hi Krzysztof,
I agree that the name is a bit confusing, it's not the same as
qcom,board-id AFAIK
and QCA as well as vendors are using a similar property in the wifi
node to override
the default qmi-board-id to the correct one as its rarely properly fused.

I assume it would be better-called qcom,ath11k-qmi-board-id as you
dont even have
to be using a Qualcomm SoC as the same is used by PCI ath11k cards as well.

Regards,
Robert
>
> Is your property exactly the same?
>
> > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > +    description:
> > +      Board ID to override the one returned by the firmware or the default
> > +      0xff if it was not set by the vendor at all.
> > +      It is used along the ath11k-calibration-variant to mach the correct
> > +      calibration data from board-2.bin.
> > +
> >    qcom,ath11k-calibration-variant:
> >      $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
> >      description:
>
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof