linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 12/29] venus: add common capability parser

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 18:23:28 +0900
From:   Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
To:     Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        vgarodia@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/29] venus: add common capability parser

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 4:06 PM Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:21 AM Stanimir Varbanov
> <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tomasz,
> >
> > On 05/24/2018 05:16 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > > Hi Stanimir,
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:08 PM Stanimir Varbanov <
[snip]
> > >
> > >> +                       break;
> > >> +               }
> > >> +
> > >> +               word++;
> > >> +               words_count--;
> > >
> > > If data is at |word + 1|, shouldn’t we increment |word| by |1 + |data
> > > size||?
> >
> > yes, that could be possible but the firmware packets are with variable
> > data length and don't want to make the code so complex.
> >
> > The idea is to search for HFI_PROPERTY_PARAM* key numbers. Yes it is not
> > optimal but this enumeration is happen only once during driver probe.
> >
>
> Hmm, do we have a guarantee that we will never find a value that
> matches HFI_PROPERTY_PARAM*, but would be actually just some data
> inside the payload?

Ping?

Best regards,
Tomasz