[PATCH v3 ath-current 0/2] wifi: ath11k: add usecase firmware handling based on device compatible

Miaoqing Pan miaoqing.pan at oss.qualcomm.com
Mon Jan 19 06:02:36 PST 2026


The 'firmware-name' property was introduced to allow end-users and
integrators to select use-case-specific firmware for the WCN6855.
But for M.2 WLAN chips, there is no suitable DTS node to specify
the 'firmware-name' property. In addition, assigning firmware for
the M.2 PCIe interface causes chips that do not use use-case-specific
firmware to fail. Therefore, abandoning the approach of specifying
firmware in DTS. As an alternative, propose a static lookup table
mapping device compatible to firmware names.

---
v2:
- Drops `firmware-name` from completely.
- Updates the commit message to clearly state that the property is
  obsolete and the change is ABI-breaking but safe for upstream.
v3:
 - Deprecate 'firmware-name' property instead of obsolete.
 - Keep the ABI backwards compatible.
---

Miaoqing Pan (2):
  wifi: ath11k: add usecase firmware handling based on device compatible
  dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k-pci: deprecate 'firmware-name'
    property

 .../net/wireless/qcom,ath11k-pci.yaml         |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c        | 36 +++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.h        |  4 +++
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+)


base-commit: d8e1f4a193101a72235416f189b01131a57e26e9
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2.34.1




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