linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath10k: avoid unnecessary wait for service ready message

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Message-Id: <175823924851.3217488.17742065327824732992.b4-ty@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:47:28 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>
To: Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...nel.org>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@...cinc.com>,
        Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@....qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath10k@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath10k: avoid unnecessary wait for
 service ready message


On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:26:45 +0800, Baochen Qiang wrote:
> Commit e57b7d62a1b2 ("wifi: ath10k: poll service ready message before
> failing") works around the failure in waiting for the service ready
> message by active polling. Note the polling is triggered after initial
> wait timeout, which means that the wait-till-timeout can not be avoided
> even the message is ready.
> 
> A possible fix is to do polling once before wait as well, however this
> can not handle the race that the message arrives right after polling.
> So the solution is to do periodic polling until timeout.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] wifi: ath10k: avoid unnecessary wait for service ready message
      commit: 51a73f1b2e56b0324b4a3bb8cebc4221b5be4c7a

Best regards,
-- 
Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>