[PATCH 00/10] wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac80211 callback operation functions

[Karthikeyan Periyasamy]

On 1/15/2024 9:05 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa at quicinc.com> writes:
>
>> Currently, the existing mac80211 callback functions are defined assuming
>> each link/radio is represented by a single mac80211 hw. In order to
>> support multi link operation (MLO), need to move from the multi wiphy
>> model to a single wiphy model. However, the single wiphy model allows
>> multiple link/radio to be exposed by the same mac80211 hw. Therefore, we
>> need to separate the link/radio specific handling within the mac80211
>> callback operations. This way, the callback can be extended to support
>> multiple link/radio in the future.
>>
>> 			Current Multi wiphy Model
>>
>> +---------------+            +---------------+            +-------------+
>> |  Mac80211 hw  |            | Mac80211 hw   |            |Mac80211 hw  |
>> |  private data |            | private data  |            |private data |
>> |               |            |               |            |             |
>> |               |            |               |            |             |
>> |               |            |               |            |             |
>> |   ar (2GHz)   |            |   ar (5GHz)   |            |  ar (6GHz)  |
>> |               |            |               |            |             |
>> |               |            |               |            |             |
>> |               |            |               |            |             |
>> +---------------+            +---------------+            +-------------+
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 			  Single wiphy Model
>>
>>                             +--------------+
>>                             | Mac80211 hw  |
>>                             | private data |
>>                             |              |
>>                             |ath12k hw (ah)|
>>                             | +----------+ |
>>                             | |ar (2GHz) | |
>>                             | +----------+ |
>>                             | |          | |
>>                             | |ar (5GHz) | |
>>                             | +----------+ |
>>                             | |          | |
>>                             | |ar (6GHz) | |
>>                             | |          | |
>>                             | +----------+ |
>>                             +--------------+
>>
>>
>> Karthikeyan Periyasamy (10):
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of config
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of bss info changed
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of conf tx
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of start
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of stop
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of update vif offload
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of configure filter
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of ampdu action
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of flush
>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor start vdev delay function
> In the pending branch I renamed the patch titles like this, an example:
>
> wifi: ath12k: refactor ath12k_mac_op_conf_tx()
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=bdb399b467daacabdc0e2127e03874d399f17a38

Looks fine to me.


Thanks,

Karthikeyan