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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] drm/dp_mst: Fix W=1 warnings
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:08:34AM +0000, Benjamin GAIGNARD wrote:
>
> On 1/31/20 12:22 AM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>>> hi-actually yes, we should probably be using this instead of just dropping
> >>>> this. Also, I didn't write this code originally I just refactored a bunch
> >>>> of
> >>>> it - Dave Airlied is the original author, but the original version of this
> >>>> code was written ages ago. tbh, I think it's a safe bet to say that they
> >>>> probably did mean to use this but forgot to and no one noticed until now.
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Any clue about how to use crc value ? Does it have to be checked
> >>> against something else ?
> >>> If crc are not matching what should we do of the data copied just before ?
> >> We should be able to just take the CRC value from the sideband message and
> >> then generate our own CRC value using the sideband message contents, and check
> >> if the two are equal. If they aren't, something went wrong and we didn't
> >> receive the message properly.
> >>
> >> Now as to what we should do when we have CRC mismatches? That's a bit more
> >> difficult. If you have access to the DP MST spec, I suppose a place to start
> >> figuring that out would be checking if there's a way for us to request that a
> >> branch device resend whatever message it sent previously. If there isn't, I
> >> guess we should just print an error in dmesg (possibly with a hexdump of the
> >> failed message as well) and not forward the message to the driver. Not sure of
> >> any better way of handling it then that
> > Yeah I think this reflects what I wanted to do, I've no memory of a
> > retransmit option in the spec, but I've away from it for a while. But
> > we'd want to compare the CRC with what we got to make sure the are the
> > same.
>
> Hmm, that far more complex than just fix compilation warnings :)
>
> I will split the patch in two:
>
> - one for of all other warnings, hopefully it can get reviewed
>
> - one for this crc4 variable. Does checking crc value and print an error
> should be acceptable ?
>
> Something like:
>
> if (crc4 != msg->chunk[msg->curchunk_len - 1])
>
>     print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, "wrong crc", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, 16, 1,
> msg->chunk,  msg->curchunk_len, false);

Yeah I think that should be reasonable as a start. Then we'll see how much
the bug reports start flowing in ...
-Daniel
>
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> >
> > Dave.
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Daniel Vetter
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