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Date:   Wed, 9 Oct 2019 11:01:25 +0800
From:   You-Sheng Yang <vicamo.yang@...onical.com>
To:     Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Shahar S Matityahu <shahar.s.matityahu@...el.com>,
        Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@...el.com>,
        Gil Adam <gil.adam@...el.com>,
        Mordechay Goodstein <mordechay.goodstein@...el.com>,
        Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@...el.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: fw: don't send GEO_TX_POWER_LIMIT command to FW
 version 29

Tested and commented on the issue page. Thank you for the correction.

--
Cheers,
You-Sheng Yang

On 2019-10-08 15:17, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 14:05 +0800, You-Sheng Yang wrote:
>> Follow-up for commit fddbfeece9c7 ("iwlwifi: fw: don't send
>> GEO_TX_POWER_LIMIT command to FW version 36"). There is no
>> GEO_TX_POWER_LIMIT command support for all revisions of FW version
>> 29, either.
>>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204151
>> Signed-off-by: You-Sheng Yang <vicamo.yang@...onical.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c | 6 +++---
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
>> index 32a5e4e5461f..dbba616c19de 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
>> @@ -889,14 +889,14 @@ static bool iwl_mvm_sar_geo_support(struct iwl_mvm *mvm)
>>  	 * firmware versions.  Unfortunately, we don't have a TLV API
>>  	 * flag to rely on, so rely on the major version which is in
>>  	 * the first byte of ucode_ver.  This was implemented
>> -	 * initially on version 38 and then backported to29 and 17.
>> +	 * initially on version 38 and then backported to 29 and 17.
>>  	 * The intention was to have it in 36 as well, but not all
>>  	 * 8000 family got this feature enabled.  The 8000 family is
>>  	 * the only one using version 36, so skip this version
>> -	 * entirely.
>> +	 * entirely. All revisions of -29 fw still don't have
>> +	 * GEO_TX_POWER_LIMIT supported yet.
>>  	 */
>>  	return IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) >= 38 ||
>> -	       IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) == 29 ||
>>  	       IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) == 17;
>>  }
> 
> Thanks for the patch!
> 
> But I have investigated this (even) further and now I see that 3168
> doesn't have this command, but 7265D does.  The latter also uses -29,
> so we can't blindly disable all -29 versions.
> 
> Can you try this instead?
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
> index 0d2229319261..38d89ee9bd28 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
> @@ -906,8 +906,10 @@ static bool iwl_mvm_sar_geo_support(struct iwl_mvm
> *mvm)
>          * entirely.
>          */
>         return IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) >= 38 ||
> -              IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) == 29 ||
> -              IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) == 17;
> +              IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) == 17 ||
> +              (IWL_UCODE_SERIAL(mvm->fw->ucode_ver) == 29 &&
> +               (mvm->trans->hw_rev &
> +                CSR_HW_REV_TYPE_MSK) == CSR_HW_REV_TYPE_7265D);
>  }
>  
>  int iwl_mvm_get_sar_geo_profile(struct iwl_mvm *mvm)
> 
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Luca.
> 



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