[meta-intel] [meta-intel LMS][PATCHV2 1/2] Fix device file referance to /dev/mei0 and remove select post write.

Wold, Saul saul.wold at intel.com
Fri Jul 7 15:29:11 PDT 2017


Well, sorry, but this is also not correct!  

This commit message needs to be inside the patch you are creating below
and the this along with 2/2 should be 1 patch.

You can then submit this as you did the first version.  Again, please
review the wiki links I sent you.

See below in the .patch diff

Sau!



On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 11:34 -0700, Anand Vastrad wrote:
> LMS uses /dev/mei character device which is absent on current kernel
> versions causing LMS fail to initialize. LMS sends messages to MEI
> with a post select timeout. Select timeout causes SendMessage to fail
> causing LMS to not to communicate properly with MEI.
> 
> Adding /dev/mei0 device file reference to check first and then
> /dev/mei sucessfully initializes LMS. Rely on write return length and
> remove select with timeout to fix communication with MEI.
> 
> Upstream-Status: Submitted [meta-intel at yoctoproject.org]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anand Vastrad <anand.vastrad at intel.com>
> ---
>  .../amt/lms/0003-device-file-reference-fix.patch   | 73
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 73 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 common/recipes-bsp/amt/lms/0003-device-file-
> reference-fix.patch
> 
> diff --git a/common/recipes-bsp/amt/lms/0003-device-file-reference-
> fix.patch b/common/recipes-bsp/amt/lms/0003-device-file-reference-
> fix.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..0269438
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/common/recipes-bsp/amt/lms/0003-device-file-reference-fix.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@

You need the above commit message here, however you create your patches
for LMS, you need the above commit message here.

> +--- lms8_8.0.0-7.orig/src/mei/MEILinux.cpp	2012-10-11
> 05:16:05.000000000 -0700
> ++++ lms8_8.0.0-7/src/mei/MEILinux.cpp	2017-06-21
> 15:14:13.725853901 -0700
> +@@ -94,13 +94,17 @@
> +		Deinit();
> +	}
> +
> +-	_fd = open("/dev/mei", O_RDWR);
> ++	_fd = open("/dev/mei0", O_RDWR);
> +
> +	if (_fd == -1 ) {
> +		if (_verbose) {
> +-			fprintf(stderr, "Error: Cannot establish a
> handle to the MEI driver\n");
> ++			fprintf(stderr, "Warning: Cannot establish
> a handle to the MEI driver mei0, retrying with mei \n");
> ++		}
> ++		_fd = open("/dev/mei", O_RDWR);
> ++		if (_fd == -1 ) {
> ++			fprintf(stderr, "Error: Cannot establish a
> handle to the MEI driver mei\n");
> ++			return false;
> +		}
> +-		return false;
> +	}
> +	_initialized = true;
> +
> +@@ -181,13 +185,7 @@
> + int MEILinux::SendMessage(const unsigned char *buffer, int len,
> unsigned long timeout)
> + {
> +	int rv = 0;
> +-	int return_length =0;
> +	int error = 0;
> +-	fd_set set;
> +-	struct timeval tv;
> +-
> +-	tv.tv_sec =  timeout / 1000;
> +-	tv.tv_usec =(timeout % 1000) * 1000000;
> +
> +	if (_verbose) {
> +		fprintf(stdout, "call write length = %d\n", len);
> +@@ -198,35 +196,8 @@
> +		if (_verbose) {
> +			fprintf(stderr,"write failed with status %d
> %d\n", rv, error);
> +		}
> +-		goto out;
> +-	}
> +-
> +-	return_length = rv;
> +-
> +-	FD_ZERO(&set);
> +-	FD_SET(_fd, &set);
> +-	rv = select(_fd+1 ,&set, NULL, NULL, &tv);
> +-	if (rv > 0 && FD_ISSET(_fd, &set)) {
> +-		if (_verbose) {
> +-			fprintf(stderr, "write success\n");
> +-		}
> +	}
> +-	else if (rv == 0) {
> +-		if (_verbose) {
> +-			fprintf(stderr, "write failed on timeout
> with status\n");
> +-		}
> +-		goto out;
> +-	}
> +-	else { //rv<0
> +-		if (_verbose) {
> +-			fprintf(stderr, "write failed on select
> with status %d\n", rv);
> +-		}
> +-		goto out;
> +-	}
> +-
> +-	rv = return_length;
> +
> +-out:
> +	if (rv < 0) {
> +		Deinit();
> +	}


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