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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Yaniv Machani <yanivma@ti.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, Guy Mishol <guym@ti.com>,
	Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wlcore: time sync : add support for 64 bit clock
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:18:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1466680680.11061.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160623111332.23326-1-yanivma@ti.com> (sfid-20160623_131215_419855_E4550AFE)

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 14:12 +0300, Yaniv Machani wrote:
> Changed the configuration to support 64bit instead of 32bit
> this in order to offload the driver from handling a wraparound.

[...]

Since you Cc'ed me, and presumably want me to review it, I'll say that
this looks like a terrible idea:

> @@ -74,10 +74,16 @@ struct wl18xx_event_mailbox {

This struct is evidently used for firmware/host communication.

>  	__le16 bss_loss_bitmap;
>  
>  	/* bitmap of stations (by HLID) which exceeded max tx
> retries */
> -	__le32 tx_retry_exceeded_bitmap;
> +	__le16 tx_retry_exceeded_bitmap;
> +
> +	/* time sync high msb*/
> +	u16 time_sync_tsf_high_msb;

So first of all, just using u16 instead of __le16 seems wrong.

Additionally, this looks like it changes the firmware API, so that
older firmware images will no longer work?

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-23 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-23 11:12 [PATCH] wlcore: time sync : add support for 64 bit clock Yaniv Machani
2016-06-23 11:18 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-06-23 11:32   ` Machani, Yaniv
     [not found]     ` <AE1C82FB3D0EC64DB1F752C81CBD1101391CF584-1tpBd5JUCm6IQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-23 11:35       ` Johannes Berg

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