[PATCH 02/13] wifi: nl80211: send underlying multi-hardware channel capabilities to user space

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2024-03-28 at 12:59 +0530, Karthikeyan Periyasamy wrote:
> 
> +/**
> + * nl80211_multi_hw_attrs - multi-hw attributes
> + *
> + * @NL80211_MULTI_HW_ATTR_INVALID: invalid
> + * @NL80211_MULTI_HW_ATTR_IDX: (u8) multi-HW index to refer the underlying HW
> + *	for which the supported channel list is advertised. Internally refer
> + *	the index of the wiphy's @hw_chans array.

Is there a good reason to expose this? Seems pretty internal to me, and
not sure what userspace would do with it?

> +	for (i = 0; i < wiphy->num_hw; i++) {
> +		hw_mac = nla_nest_start(msg, i + 1);

And you kind of even have it here already ...

> @@ -3001,6 +3042,12 @@ static int nl80211_send_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
>  				rdev->wiphy.hw_timestamp_max_peers))
>  			goto nla_put_failure;
>  
> +		state->split_start++;
> +		break;
> +	case 17:
> +		if (nl80211_put_multi_hw_support(&rdev->wiphy, msg))
> +			goto nla_put_failure;
> 

This could be (or get) pretty big, are you sure it's not needed to push
the splitting down into it?

johannes