[RFC v2 0/7] cfg80211/mac80211: support defining multiple radios per wiphy
Felix Fietkau
nbd at nbd.name
Wed Jun 5 11:31:23 PDT 2024
The prerequisite for MLO support in cfg80211/mac80211 is that all the links
participating in MLO must be from the same wiphy/ieee80211_hw. To meet this
expectation, some drivers may need to group multiple discrete hardware each
acting as a link in MLO under single wiphy.
With this series, the bands and supported frequencies of each individual
radio are reported to user space. This allows user space to figure out the
limitations of what combination of channels can be used concurrently.
Each mac80211 channel context is assigned to a radio based on radio specific
frequency ranges and interface combinations.
This is loosely based on Karthikeyan Periyasamy's series
"[PATCH 00/13] wifi: Add multi physical hardware iface combination support"
with some differences:
- a struct wiphy_radio is defined, which holds the frequency ranges and
a full struct ieee80211_iface_combination array
- a channel context is explicitly assigned to a radio when created
- both global and per-radio interface combination limits are checked
and enforced on channel context assignment
Changes since RFC:
- replace static per-radio number of channels limit with full ifcomb
checks
- remove band bitmask in favor of only using freq ranges
Felix Fietkau (7):
wifi: nl80211: split helper function from nl80211_put_iface_combinations
wifi: cfg80211: add support for advertising multiple radios belonging to a wiphy
wifi: cfg80211: extend interface combination check for multi-radio
wifi: mac80211: add radio index to ieee80211_chanctx_conf
wifi: mac80211: extend ifcomb check functions for multi-radio
wifi: mac80211: move code in ieee80211_link_reserve_chanctx to a helper
wifi: mac80211: add wiphy radio assignment and validation
include/net/cfg80211.h | 40 ++++++-
include/net/mac80211.h | 2 +-
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 48 ++++++++-
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 6 +-
net/mac80211/chan.c | 228 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
net/mac80211/ibss.c | 2 +-
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 4 +-
net/mac80211/iface.c | 2 +-
net/mac80211/util.c | 114 ++++++++++++------
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
net/wireless/util.c | 29 ++---
11 files changed, 481 insertions(+), 184 deletions(-)
base-commit: 5bcd9a0a59953b5ff55ac226f903397319bf7f40
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