linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add QRTR MHI client driver

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Date:   Thu, 07 May 2020 13:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org
Cc:     kvalo@...eaurora.org, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        hemantk@...eaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clew@...eaurora.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add QRTR MHI client driver

From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
Date: Thu,  7 May 2020 18:23:04 +0530

> Here is the series adding MHI client driver support to Qualcomm IPC router
> protocol. MHI is a newly added bus to kernel which is used to communicate to
> external modems over a physical interface like PCI-E. This driver is used to
> transfer the QMI messages between the host processor and external modems over
> the "IPCR" channel.
> 
> For QRTR, this driver is just another driver acting as a transport layer like
> SMD.
> 
> Currently this driver is needed to control the QCA6390 WLAN device from ath11k.
> The ath11k MHI controller driver will take care of booting up QCA6390 and
> bringing it to operating state. Later, this driver will be used to transfer QMI
> messages over the MHI-IPCR channel.
> 
> The second patch of this series removes the ARCH_QCOM dependency for QRTR. This
> is needed because the QRTR driver will be used with x86 machines as well to talk
> to devices like QCA6390.

Series applied to net-next, thanks.