netdev - Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: sdio: Increase the default timeouts a bit

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:41:37 +1100
From:	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
To:	Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>
Cc:	Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Paul Stewart <pstew@...omium.org>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@...adcom.com>,
	brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>,
	Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: sdio: Increase the default timeouts a bit

Hi Arend,

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com> wrote:
> On 25-01-16 12:06, Julian Calaby wrote:
>> Hi Sjoerd,
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Sjoerd Simons
>> <sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On a Radxa Rock2 board with a Ampak AP6335 (Broadcom 4339 core) it seems
>>> the card responds very quickly most of the time, unfortunately during
>>> initialisation it sometimes seems to take just a bit over 2 seconds to
>>> respond.
>>>
>>> This results intialization failing with message like:
>>>   brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Retreiving cur_etheraddr failed, -52
>>>   brcmf_bus_start: failed: -52
>>>   brcmf_sdio_firmware_callback: dongle is not responding
>>>
>>> Increasing the timeout to allow for a bit more headroom allows the
>>> card to initialize reliably.
>>>
>>> A quick search online after diagnosing/fixing this showed that Google
>>> has a similar patch in their ChromeOS tree, so this doesn't seem
>>> specific to the board I'm using.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk>
>>
>> Looks sane to me.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
>
> Not really a cleanup patch :-p , but thanks for the review.

I'm trying to review any "small" patch from (relatively) new people.

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@...il.com
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/