[PATCH] wifi: ath12k: order hw group devices by WSI index

Benoit Masson benoitm at perenite.com
Sat Sep 26 18:23:14 PDT 2026


On multi-chip (WSI/MLO) platforms the devices of a hardware group are
added to ag->ab[] in PCI probe completion order (ab->device_id =
ag->num_probed++). PCI probe is asynchronous, so the order in which the
chips complete firmware bring-up is not stable across boots.

ath12k_mac_allocate() builds the wiphy radio array directly from
ag->ab[], and takes the wiphy device from the first entry. As a result
both the wiphy sysfs path and the mapping of radio indices to bands
change from boot to boot on boards such as the TP-Link Archer BE800,
which has three single-band QCN9274/QCN9224 radios in one group. A
persisted hostapd configuration that pins radio0 to a band then attaches
to a random band.

Order the devices used to build pdev_map[] by ab->wsi_info.index, which
is derived deterministically from the device tree WSI ring and the
qcom,wsi-controller node. ath12k already uses wsi_info.index as the
canonical per-device index for the firmware link IDs in
ath12k_host_cap_hw_link_id_init().

Note that ag->ab[] itself is left untouched: the unassign path indexes it
by ab->device_id, which is the probe-order id.

Fixes: 6f245ea0ec6c ("wifi: ath12k: introduce device group abstraction")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 6.14+
Signed-off-by: Benoit Masson <yahoo at perenite.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
index 99bf5cf..6505255 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
@@ -15444,6 +15444,7 @@ static void ath12k_mac_set_device_defaults(struct ath12k_base *ab)
 int ath12k_mac_allocate(struct ath12k_hw_group *ag)
 {
 	struct ath12k_pdev_map pdev_map[ATH12K_GROUP_MAX_RADIO];
+	struct ath12k_base *ab_order[ATH12K_MAX_DEVICES] = {};
 	int mac_id, device_id, total_radio, num_hw;
 	struct ath12k_base *ab;
 	struct ath12k_hw *ah;
@@ -15467,6 +15468,21 @@ int ath12k_mac_allocate(struct ath12k_hw_group *ag)
 	if (WARN_ON(total_radio > ATH12K_GROUP_MAX_RADIO))
 		return -ENOSPC;
 
+	/*
+	 * Order the devices deterministically by WSI index instead of PCI
+	 * probe completion order, so that the wiphy and the radio index to
+	 * band mapping do not change from boot to boot.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < ag->num_devices; i++) {
+		ab = ag->ab[i];
+		if (!ab)
+			continue;
+		if (WARN_ON(ab->wsi_info.index >= ATH12K_MAX_DEVICES))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		ab_order[ab->wsi_info.index] = ab;
+	}
+
 	/* All pdev get combined and register as single wiphy based on
 	 * hardware group which participate in multi-link operation else
 	 * each pdev get register separately.
@@ -15483,12 +15499,12 @@ int ath12k_mac_allocate(struct ath12k_hw_group *ag)
 	mac_id = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < num_hw; i++) {
 		for (j = 0; j < radio_per_hw; j++) {
-			if (device_id >= ag->num_devices || !ag->ab[device_id]) {
+			if (device_id >= ag->num_devices || !ab_order[device_id]) {
 				ret = -ENOSPC;
 				goto err;
 			}
 
-			ab = ag->ab[device_id];
+			ab = ab_order[device_id];
 
 			/*
 			 * the assumption is all devices within an ah
-- 
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)




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