Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Fix duplicate workqueue name

Florian Fainelli
2020-10-14T18:12:43Z

On 10/14/20 10:39 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:13:04AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 10/14/20 9:18 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have pushed a version with above change [1], please check if you are
>>>>> happy with that ?
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://git.kernel.org/sudeep.holla/linux/c/b2cd15549b
>>>>
>>>> I agree with the need to retain _notify name, but I'm not so sure about
>>>> the above patch...which is:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree, I thought about it and just cooked up this as a quick solution.
>>> I will move to that, even I wasn't happy with this TBH.
>>
>> The reason why I went with just dev_name() was such that the workqueue
>> name and the device nodes under /sys would strictly match, which helps
>> as an user, and also it avoided the temporary buffer and its size
>> limitations.
>
> Agreed. I just showed that as example and was hoping to use some nice
> kstr* APIs to achieve what I wanted but soon realised there exists none.
> So as replied earlier, I will take this change as it for now. Let us
> address this in future if it becomes an issue.
>
> Thanks for quick test, we now know whom to bother if we need more testing
> 😉 as out internal platforms are not that great to cover all the aspects
> we add in the spec and even in the kernel.

No problem! I still need to find the time to upgrade the ATF equivalent
implementation to support SCMI 3.0, have not done that just yet.
--
Florian