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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:46:54 -0200
From:	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>
To:	pavan_savoy@...com
Cc:	marcel@...tmann.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] Bluetooth: btwilink driver

Hi Pavan,

* pavan_savoy@...com <pavan_savoy@...com> [2010-11-26 04:20:57 -0500]:

> From: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@...com>
> 
> Marcel, Gustavo,
> 
> comments attended to from v5 and v6,
> 
> 1. Inside ti_st_open, I previously only checked for EINPROGRESS & EPERM,
> Now I handle for EINPROGRESS - which is not really an error and
> return during all other error cases.
> 
> 2. _write is still a function pointer and not an exported function, I
> need to change the underlying driver's code for this.
> However, previous lkml comments on the underlying driver's code
> suggested it to be kept as a function pointer and not EXPORT.
> Gustavo, Marcel - Please comment on this.
> Is this absolutely required? If so why?
> 
> 3. test_and_set_bit of HCI_RUNNING is done at beginning of
> ti_st_open, and did not see issues during firmware download.
> However ideally I would still like to set HCI_RUNNING once the firmware
> download is done, because I don't want to allow a _send_frame during
> firmware download - Marcel, Gustavo - Please comment.
> 
> 4. test_and_clear of HCI_RUNNING now done @ beginning of close.
> 
> 5. EAGAIN on failure of st_write is to suggest to try and write again.
> I have never this happen - However only if UART goes bad this case may
> occur.
> 
> 6. ti_st_tx_complete is very similar to hci_ldisc's tx_complete - in
> fact the code is pretty much borrowed from there.
> Marcel, Gustavo - Please suggest where should it be done? If not here.
> 
> 7. comments cleaned-up + hst memory leak fixed when hci_alloc_dev fails.
> 
> 8. platform_driver registration inside module_init now is similar to
> other drivers.
> 
> 9. Dan Carpenter's comments on leaking hst memory on failed
> hci_register_dev and empty space after quotes in debug statements
> fixed.
> 
> Thanks for the comments...
> Sorry, for previously not being very clear on which comments were
> handled and which were not.
> 
> -- patch description --
> 
> This is the bluetooth protocol driver for the TI WiLink7 chipsets.
> Texas Instrument's WiLink chipsets combine wireless technologies
> like BT, FM, GPS and WLAN onto a single chip.
> 
> This Bluetooth driver works on top of the TI_ST shared transport
> line discipline driver which also allows other drivers like
> FM V4L2 and GPS character driver to make use of the same UART interface.
> 
> Kconfig and Makefile modifications to enable the Bluetooth
> driver for Texas Instrument's WiLink 7 chipset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@...com>
> ---
>  drivers/bluetooth/Kconfig    |   10 ++
>  drivers/bluetooth/Makefile   |    1 +
>  drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.c |  363 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.c

So as part of reviewing this I took a look at your underlying driver and
I didn't like what I saw there, you are handling Bluetooth stuff inside
the core driver and that is just wrong. You have a Bluetooth driver here
then you have to leave the Bluetooth data handling to the Bluetooth
driver and do not do that in the core. 

So I'm going to clear NACK this. Your TI ST driver architecture is
a mess, Ideally you should not have any #include <net/bluetoooth/...>
there. Implement a core driver that only gets the Shared Transport
data and pass it to the right driver without look into the data and
process it. Process the data is not the role of the core driver.

Please fix this and come back when you have a proper solution for your
driver.

-- 
Gustavo F. Padovan
http://profusion.mobi
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