Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:17:24 -0800 | From | Bhaumik Bhatt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ath11k: use MHI provided APIs to allocate and free MHI controller |
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On 2020-11-16 11:14 PM, Kalle Valo wrote: > Bhaumik Bhatt <bbhatt@codeaurora.org> writes: > >> Use MHI provided APIs to allocate and free MHI controller to >> improve MHI host driver handling. > > How does it improve the handling? > Main reason is we want to ensure the MHI controller is zero-initialized and we want to mandate it as it is better to have it under our control in case we also want to allocate and track peripheral data/memory related to the MHI controller. >> This also fixes a memory leak as the MHI controller was allocated but >> never freed. >> >> Signed-off-by: Bhaumik Bhatt <bbhatt@codeaurora.org> >> --- >> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c | 7 ++++--- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > For ath11k patches please CC ath11k and linux-wireless lists so that > patchwork sees it. So you need to resend this. > > Is this a new API? I need to understand if there are any dependencies > between mhi and ath trees, or if I can apply this directly to my > ath.git > tree.
This one should be dependent on the patch [1] which exists on mainline and should already part of your tree if you're on any 5.10 RC.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/bus/mhi?h=v5.10-rc4&id=f42dfbe8f712127031e7b9bc938a1c33cec2ff57
Thanks, Bhaumik --- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
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