MHI specification shows a state machine with support for STOP channel command and the validity of certain state transitions. MHI host currently does not provide any mechanism to stop a channel and restart it without resetting it. There are also times when the device moves on to a different execution environment while client drivers on the host are unaware of it and still attempt to reset the channels facing unnecessary timeouts.
This series addresses the above areas to provide support for stopping an MHI channel, resuming it back, improved documentation and improving upon channel state machine handling in general. This set of patches was tested on arm64 architecture. v4: -Updated commit text/descriptions and addressed checkpatch checks -Added context validity check before starting/stopping channels from new API -Added patch to clear channel context configuration after reset/unprepare v3: -Updated documentation for channel transfer APIs to highlight differences -Create separate patch for "allowing channel to be disabled from stopped state" v2: -Renamed the newly introduced APIs to mhi_start_transfer() / mhi_stop_transfer() -Added improved documentation to avoid confusion with the new APIs -Removed the __ prefix from mhi_unprepare_channel() API for consistency. Bhaumik Bhatt (8): bus: mhi: core: Allow sending the STOP channel command bus: mhi: core: Allow channel to be disabled from stopped state bus: mhi: core: Improvements to the channel handling state machine bus: mhi: core: Clear configuration from channel context during reset bus: mhi: core: Add support to stop or start channel data transfers bus: mhi: core: Check channel execution environment before issuing reset bus: mhi: core: Remove __ prefix for MHI channel unprepare function bus: mhi: Improve documentation on channel transfer setup APIs drivers/bus/mhi/core/init.c | 22 +++- drivers/bus/mhi/core/internal.h | 12 ++ drivers/bus/mhi/core/main.c | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ include/linux/mhi.h | 45 +++++++- 4 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project