PROBLEM: unable to get QCA6390 to work

[Kalle Valo]

Pavel Procopiuc <pavel.procopiuc at gmail.com> writes:

> After doing some testing I was able to get it running under some
> specific conditions. I took the v5.9 tag of the main kernel tree and
> merged in the ath11k-qca6390-bringup-202009250825 tag from the ath
> tree. I had to fix some trivial conflicts, but the resulting kernel
> together with the firmware (amss.bin, m3.bin and board-2.bin) gave me
> a working driver that I was able to use to connect to my AP in both
> 2,4 and 5GHz.
>
> I then tried to copy over the ath11k driver source resulting from that
> merge on top of the 5.10-rc2 tag. After fixing some API breakage
> (IEEE80211_TX_CTRL_HW_80211_ENCAP and ieee80211_set_hw_80211_encap) to
> make it compile I booted into the resulting kernel, but ath11k driver
> was giving me the same firmware errors I had initially on 5.10-rc2. So
> it looks like there might be some change in 5.10 that broke the logic.

Interesting, and worrisome. I have not yet tested v5.10-rc releases,
I'll do that ASAP and try to reproduce your issue. If I see the same
problem then it should be possible to bisect the issue pretty easily.

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