Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add QRTR MHI client driver

From: David Miller
Date: Thu May 07 2020 - 16:21:39 EST


From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 18:23:04 +0530

> Here is the series adding MHI client driver support to Qualcomm IPC router
> protocol. MHI is a newly added bus to kernel which is used to communicate to
> external modems over a physical interface like PCI-E. This driver is used to
> transfer the QMI messages between the host processor and external modems over
> the "IPCR" channel.
>
> For QRTR, this driver is just another driver acting as a transport layer like
> SMD.
>
> Currently this driver is needed to control the QCA6390 WLAN device from ath11k.
> The ath11k MHI controller driver will take care of booting up QCA6390 and
> bringing it to operating state. Later, this driver will be used to transfer QMI
> messages over the MHI-IPCR channel.
>
> The second patch of this series removes the ARCH_QCOM dependency for QRTR. This
> is needed because the QRTR driver will be used with x86 machines as well to talk
> to devices like QCA6390.

Series applied to net-next, thanks.