[PATCH 4/4] wifi: ath12k: Refactor MAC un/register helper function

[Karthikeyan Periyasamy]

On 1/15/2024 8:57 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa at quicinc.com> writes:
>
>>> Is there a reason why you moved these two functions from mac.c to
>>> core.c? This is mac level code anyway, right?
>> This is not fully mac level code, some parts of SoC/chip level code
>> bindup in the mac level. So i segregated the SoC level code like ab
>> related param initialization handling from the mac level procedure.
>>
>> Now, mac/radio should take care only radio level handling procedure.
>>
>> In future for MLO, SoC level can be extend easily.
> But is there a concrete reason to have the functions in core.c? In your
> following patches I couldn't see why to move these functions to core.c,
> everything seems to be suitable for mac.c.
>
> I experimented this in the pending branch and moved the functions to
> mac.c (tag ath-pending-202401151424):
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=bee89ac2b5755754849deaf7054828e982cc6658
>
> I also fixed your other patchsets to match that and to me it makes more
> sense to have everything in mac.c. I prefer to make core.c as simple as possible.
>
> As you can see I also made changes to the patch titles to make them more
> understandable:
>
> wifi: ath12k: refactor ath12k_mac_register() and ath12k_mac_unregister()
>
> Thoughts?


Looks fine to me.


Thanks,

Karthikeyan