[PATCH] ath11k: add read variant from SMBIOS for download board data

[Kalle Valo]

Wen Gong <wgong at codeaurora.org> writes:

> On 2021-11-18 18:25, Wen Gong wrote:
>> On 2021-11-17 16:54, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> Wen Gong <wgong at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is to read variant from SMBIOS such as read from DT, the variant
>>>> string will be used to one part of string which used to search board
>>>> data from board-2.bin.
>>>>
>>>> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI
>>>> WLAN.HSP.1.1-01720.1-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <wgong at codeaurora.org>
>>>
>>> I'm dropping all patches listed below in one go. I didn't manage to
>>> apply any of these without conflicts, please remember to always use
>>> ath.git master branch as the baseline to avoid conflicts.
>>>
>>> 9 patches set to Changes Requested.
>>>
>>> 12549401 ath11k: add read variant from SMBIOS for download board data
>>> 12549415 ath11k: add wait operation for tx management packets for
>>> flush from mac80211
>>> 12549419 ath11k: change to treat alpha code na as world wide regdomain
>>> 12549431 ath11k: report rssi of each chain to mac80211
>>> 12549433 ath11k: Add signal report to mac80211 for QCA6390 and WCN6855
>>> 12549449 ath11k: report tx bitrate for iw wlan station dump
>>> 12554953 ath11k: add support for hardware rfkill for QCA6390
>>> 12583807 ath11k: add 11d scan offload support
>>> 12583809 ath11k: calculate the correct NSS of peer for HE capabilities
>>
>> I have rebased to latest ath.git master ath-202111170737 and resend v2
>> for below patches:
>> [v2] ath11k: report rssi of each chain to mac80211
>> [v2,0/2] ath11k: add 11d scan offload support for QCA6390/WCN6855
>> [v2] ath11k: add read variant from SMBIOS for download board data
>> [v2] ath11k: skip sending vdev down for channel switch
>> [v2] ath11k: fix read fail for htt_stats and htt_peer_stats for
>> single pdev
>> [v2] ath11k: calculate the correct NSS of peer for HE capabilities
>> [v2] ath11k: add wait operation for tx management packets for flush
>> from mac80211
>> [v2] ath11k: change to treat alpha code na as world wide regdomain
>>
>> I will rebase the left patches after these patches upstream, otherwise
>> the left patches will have conflict with these patches
>> because they change same location but actually have no logic relation.
>
> Hi Kalle,
>
> I have tested in my local git, all the above v2 patches only have one
> conflict
> between "[v2,2/2] ath11k: add 11d scan offload support"
> and "[v2] ath11k: report rssi of each chain to mac80211"
> in wmi_tlv_policies of wmi.c because they both add a item in the struct.
> patch -p1 -i xxx.patch will auto fix this type conflict.
>
> +       [WMI_TAG_11D_NEW_COUNTRY_EVENT] = {
> +               .min_len = sizeof(struct wmi_11d_new_cc_ev) },
>
> +       [WMI_TAG_PER_CHAIN_RSSI_STATS] = {
> +               .min_len = sizeof(struct wmi_per_chain_rssi_stats) },

Thanks, this was very helpful. I have the patches now in the pending
branch, I'll test and review them next week.

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