Re: [PATCH v7 05/24] wfx: add main.c/main.h

Jérôme Pouiller
2021-10-01T15:30:11Z

On Friday 1 October 2021 11:22:08 CEST Kalle Valo wrote:
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> Jerome Pouiller <Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com> writes:
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> > From: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
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> [...]
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> > +/* The device needs data about the antenna configuration. This information in
> > + * provided by PDS (Platform Data Set, this is the wording used in WF200
> > + * documentation) files. For hardware integrators, the full process to create
> > + * PDS files is described here:
> > + * https:github.com/SiliconLabs/wfx-firmware/blob/master/PDS/README.md
> > + *
> > + * So this function aims to send PDS to the device. However, the PDS file is
> > + * often bigger than Rx buffers of the chip, so it has to be sent in multiple
> > + * parts.
> > + *
> > + * In add, the PDS data cannot be split anywhere. The PDS files contains tree
> > + * structures. Braces are used to enter/leave a level of the tree (in a JSON
> > + * fashion). PDS files can only been split between root nodes.
> > + */
> > +int wfx_send_pds(struct wfx_dev *wdev, u8 *buf, size_t len)
> > +{
> > + int ret;
> > + int start, brace_level, i;
> > +
> > + start = 0;
> > + brace_level = 0;
> > + if (buf[0] != '{') {
> > + dev_err(wdev->dev, "valid PDS start with '{'. Did you forget to
> > compress it?\n");
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > + for (i = 1; i < len - 1; i++) {
> > + if (buf[i] == '{')
> > + brace_level++;
> > + if (buf[i] == '}')
> > + brace_level--;
> > + if (buf[i] == '}' && !brace_level) {
> > + i++;
> > + if (i - start + 1 > WFX_PDS_MAX_SIZE)
> > + return -EFBIG;
> > + buf[start] = '{';
> > + buf[i] = 0;
> > + dev_dbg(wdev->dev, "send PDS '%s}'\n", buf + start);
> > + buf[i] = '}';
> > + ret = hif_configuration(wdev, buf + start,
> > + i - start + 1);
> > + if (ret > 0) {
> > + dev_err(wdev->dev, "PDS bytes %d to %d: invalid data (unsupported
> > options?)\n",
> > + start, i);
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > + if (ret == -ETIMEDOUT) {
> > + dev_err(wdev->dev, "PDS bytes %d to %d: chip didn't reply (corrupted
> > file?)\n",
> > + start, i);
> > + return ret;
> > + }
> > + if (ret) {
> > + dev_err(wdev->dev, "PDS bytes %d to %d: chip returned an unknown
> > error\n",
> > + start, i);
> > + return -EIO;
> > + }
> > + buf[i] = ',';
> > + start = i;
> > + }
> > + }
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> I'm not really fond of having this kind of ASCII based parser in the
> kernel. Do you have an example compressed file somewhere?
>
> Does the device still work without these PDS files? I ask because my
> suggestion is to remove this part altogether and revisit after the
> initial driver is moved to drivers/net/wireless. A lot simpler to review
> complex features separately.

Do you want I remove this function from this patch and place it a new
patch at the end of this series?

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Jérôme Pouiller