[PATCH v5 00/12] wifi: ath12k: Add single wiphy support
Jeff Johnson
quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com
Wed Mar 20 14:00:36 PDT 2024
On 3/20/2024 12:09 PM, Rameshkumar Sundaram wrote:
> From: Sriram R <quic_srirrama at quicinc.com>
>
> With the introduction of Multi Link Operation (MLO) support in
> IEEE802.11be, each EHT AP/non AP interface is capable of
> operating with multiple radio links.
>
> cfg80211/mac80211 expects drivers to abstract the communication
> between such Multi Link HW and mac80211/cfg80211 since it depends
> on different driver/HW implementation. Hence the single wiphy
> abstraction with changes in datastructures were introduced in
> "wifi: ath12k: Introduce hw abstraction"
>
> This patchset extends the implementation to allow combination
> of multiple underlying radios into a single composite hw/wiphy
> for registration. Since now multiple radios are represented by
> a single wiphy, changes are required in various mac ops that the
> driver supports since the driver now needs to learn on how to tunnel
> various mac ops properly to a specific radio.
>
> This patchset covers the basic mac80211 ops for an interface bring up
> and operation.
>
> Note:
> Monitor and hw reconfig support for Single Wiphy will be done in future
> patchsets.
>
> ---
> v5:
> - Addressed Jeff's comments
> - Made arvif config cache to be dynamic in PATCH 07/12
In the future please be specific about what patches in the series were
modified so that reviewers don't have to spend time reviewing the parts that
didn't change.
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