[PATCH] ath11k: pci: avoid unsafe register access during shutdown

[Baochen Qiang]

On 8/19/2025 4:50 PM, Balsam Chihi wrote:
> Hello,
> I Have a question on the same subject but not related to the bug.
> I have many identical PCIe WiFi cards on the system and I need to load
> a different board-2.bin on each one (1 adapter per frequency band).
> Is there any kernel built-in solution for that?
> I could not find any, so I had to create a patch that loads a
> different board-2.bin for each card based on the pci device address.
> I patched ath11k's core.c file so that it reads a string from a text
> file in the rootfs (board-2.bin path per wifi card).
> If the text file is not found, the driver loads the default file
> provided by linux-firmware for all cards, the original behaviour.
> Please let me know if there is a better solution for that.
> Best regards.
> Balsam

Vasanth, can you comment?