Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] ath10k: Introduce a device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 05:41:13PM +0100, David Heidelberg via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Amit Pundir <[email protected]>
> 
> There are firmware versions which do not support host capability QMI
> request. We suspect either the host cap is not implemented or there may
> be firmware specific issues, but apparently there seem to be a generation
> of firmware that has this particular behavior.

It needs to be explicit that this happens _before_ firmware-N.bin and
board-M.bin loading. As such, you can't add a quirk to the firmware.bin
(a standard way to handle firmware issues).

> For example, firmware build on Xiaomi Poco F1 (sdm845) phone:
> "QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=WLAN.HL.2.0.c3-00257-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1"
> 
> If we do not skip the host cap QMI request on Poco F1, then we get a
> QMI_ERR_MALFORMED_MSG_V01 error message before loading the firmware in the
> ath10k_qmi_host_cap_send_sync(). This error message is not fatal to the
> firmware nor to the ath10k driver and we can still bring up the WiFi
> services successfully if we just ignore it.
> 
> Hence introducing this device-tree quirk to skip host capability
> QMI request for the devices with firmware versions which do not support
> this feature.
> 
> Suggested-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <[email protected]>

You are sending the patch, but it misses your SoB.

> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/qmi.c  | 13 ++++++++++---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c |  3 +++
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.h |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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With best wishes
Dmitry