[RFC v2 0/7] cfg80211/mac80211: support defining multiple radios per wiphy

[Felix Fietkau]

On 06.06.24 12:00, Aditya Kumar Singh wrote:
> On 6/6/24 00:01, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> 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
> 
> What about handling 2 GHz + 5 GHz issue we discussed in v1 related to
> radar detection width and num chan ctx? Is that taken care?

Seems that I missed that one. I will take care of it in the next version.

Thanks,

- Felix