Re: [PATCH v2 03/15] firmware: qcom_scm: Migrate to generic PAS service

Harshal Dev via OP-TEE
2026-03-27T12:10:39Z

On 3/12/2026 11:57 AM, Sumit Garg wrote:
> From: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@oss.qualcomm.com>
>
> With the availability of generic PAS service, let's add SCM calls as
> a backend to keep supporting legacy QTEE interfaces. The exported
> qcom_scm* wrappers will get dropped once all the client drivers get
> migrated as part of future patches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/qcom/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c | 336 ++++++++++++++-----------------
> 2 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-)
>

[..]

> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c b/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
> index 8fbc96693a55..2d7937ae7c8f 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>

[..]

>
> -/**
> - * devm_qcom_scm_pas_context_alloc() - Allocate peripheral authentication service
> - * context for a given peripheral
> - *
> - * PAS context is device-resource managed, so the caller does not need
> - * to worry about freeing the context memory.
> - *
> - * @dev: PAS firmware device
> - * @pas_id: peripheral authentication service id
> - * @mem_phys: Subsystem reserve memory start address
> - * @mem_size: Subsystem reserve memory size
> - *
> - * Returns: The new PAS context, or ERR_PTR() on failure.
> - */

Shouldn't we drop the documentation for the exported functions in this file as part of
patch 14/15? After this patch is applied, the devm_qcom_scm_pas_context_alloc() function
still remains exported and available.

Regards,
Harshal