From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 3/3] iwlwifi: Load firmware exclusively for Intel WiFi
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:57:57 +0300
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Cc: Kai Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Berg\, Johannes" <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
        "Coelho\, Luciano" <luciano.coelho@intel.com>,
        linuxwifi <linuxwifi@intel.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
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To: "Grumbach\, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
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        (Emmanuel Grumbach's message of "Wed, 3 Oct 2018 09:50:58 +0000")
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+ linux-bluetooth

"Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> writes:

>>=20
>> > On Oct 3, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> To avoid the firmware loading race between Bluetooth and WiFi on
>> >> Intel 8260, load firmware exclusively when BT_INTEL is enabled.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
>> >
>> > Still the commit log tells nothing about the actual problem which
>> > makes review impossible.
>>=20
>> Sorry for that. The first two patches [1] only sends to linux-bluetooth =
and
>> LMKL.
>>=20
>> I don=E2=80=99t know what really happened at hardware/firmware level, bu=
t making
>> btusb and iwlwifi load firmware sequentially can workaround the issue.
>>=20
>> Matt Chen may be able to explain this issue with more detail.
>>=20
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/3/322
>>
>
> I just read the code of this patch and I don't quite understand.
> You have a function that is declared as a non-inline function in two diff=
erent header files?
> btintel_firmware_lock is declared here:
>
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/intel-wifi-bt.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +#ifndef __INTEL_WIFI_BT_H__
> +#define __INTEL_WIFI_BT_H__
> +
> +void btintel_firmware_lock(void);
>
> And ...
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btintel.h b/drivers/bluetooth/btintel.h
> index 41c642cc523f..1373ffc2b575 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/btintel.h
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btintel.h
> @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ int btintel_read_boot_params(struct hci_dev *hdev,
>  			     struct intel_boot_params *params);
>  int btintel_download_firmware(struct hci_dev *dev, const struct firmware=
 *fw,
>  			      u32 *boot_param);
> +void btintel_firmware_lock(void);
>
>
> This can't be right.

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Kalle Valo