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

[Ameer Antar]

Balsam, do you have a patch for this? I also have cards that require different
bin files for each band. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this via
configuration rather than rebuilding drivers.

Thanks.
-Ameer

----- Original Message -----
From: Balsam Chihi <balsam.chihi at moment.tech>
To: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang at oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org, ath11k at lists.infradead.org,
jjohnson at kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath11k: pci: avoid unsafe register access during shutdown
Date: 8/19/25 4:50:47 AM

>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