linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Add missing Rx size re-initialisation

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Date:   Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:50:43 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@...aro.org>,
        Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, Souvik.Chakravarty@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Add missing Rx size re-initialisation

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 03:17:46PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Few commands provide the list of description partially and require
> to be called consecutively until all the descriptors are fetched
> completely. In such cases, we don't release the buffers and reuse
> them for consecutive transmits.
> 
> However, currently we don't reset the Rx size which will be set as
> per the response for the last transmit. This may result in incorrect
> response size being interpretted as the firmware may repond with size
> greater than the one set but we read only upto the size set by previous
> response.
> 
> Let us reset the receive buffer size to max possible in such cases as
> we don't know the exact size of the response.
>

Applied to sudeep.holla/linux (for-next/scmi), thanks!

[PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Add missing Rx size re-initialisation
	https://git.kernel.org/sudeep.holla/c/9724722fde

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Regards,
Sudeep