linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: btusb: using big-endian definition for board_id in struct qca

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Date:   Wed, 3 Nov 2021 15:24:53 +0100
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     tjiang@...eaurora.org
Cc:     Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-bluetooth <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
        MSM <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Balakrishna Godavarthi <bgodavar@...eaurora.org>,
        c-hbandi@...eaurora.org, Hemantg <hemantg@...eaurora.org>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Rocky Liao <rjliao@...eaurora.org>, zijuhu@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: btusb: using big-endian definition for
 board_id in struct qca_version

Hi Tim,

> As we name nvm file by using big-endian for boardID, so align host with it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Jiang <tjiang@...eaurora.org>
> ---
> drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
> index 46d892bbde62..08a1c6d8390f 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
> @@ -2883,7 +2883,7 @@ struct qca_version {
> 	__le32	rom_version;
> 	__le32	patch_version;
> 	__le32	ram_version;
> -	__le16	board_id;
> +	__be16	board_id;
> 	__le16	flag;
> 	__u8	reserved[4];
> } __packed;
> @@ -3072,7 +3072,7 @@ static void btusb_generate_qca_nvm_name(char *fwname, size_t max_size,
> 	u16 flag = le16_to_cpu(ver->flag);
> 
> 	if (((flag >> 8) & 0xff) == QCA_FLAG_MULTI_NVM) {
> -		u16 board_id = le16_to_cpu(ver->board_id);
> +		u16 board_id = be16_to_cpu(ver->board_id);
> 		const char *variant;

my original comment still stands. Are you sure you are doing this correctly. The in-memory layout of your NVM is mixed little-endian and big-endian? Really? Or do you want to convert back from host endian to big endian?

You commit message text suggest that you have to do this:

diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
index 46d892bbde62..55a33a5fea56 100644
--- a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
@@ -3090,7 +3090,7 @@ static void btusb_generate_qca_nvm_name(char *fwname, size_t max_size,
                                rom_version, variant);
                } else {
                        snprintf(fwname, max_size, "qca/nvm_usb_%08x%s_%04x.bin",
-                               rom_version, variant, board_id);
+                               rom_version, variant, cpu_to_be16(board_id));
                }
        } else {
                snprintf(fwname, max_size, "qca/nvm_usb_%08x.bin”,

And really, I can not do this anymore. Write lengthy commit messages explaining your change in detail. I am not looking a patches anymore until they have a proper paragraph explaining the change and why it is correct.

Also this change had v16 before I merged and even in that version I had to fix issues. Please stop wasting my time. I have no idea why this wasn’t caught earlier. It is a fundamental flaw. I am close to just reverting the previous patch since it seems it clearly needs more testing.

Regards

Marcel