ath11k and vfio-pci support

[Kalle Valo]

Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang at quicinc.com> writes:

> On 1/10/2024 10:55 PM, James Prestwood wrote:
>> Hi Kalle,
>> On 1/10/24 5:49 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> James Prestwood <prestwoj at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>> But I have also no idea what is causing this, I guess we are doing
>>>>> something wrong with the PCI communication? That reminds me, you could
>>>>> try this in case that helps:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20231212031914.47339-1-imguzh@gmail.com/
>>>>
>>>> Heh, I saw this pop up a day after I sent this and was wondering. Is
>>>> this something I'd need on the host kernel, guest, or both?
>>>
>>> On the guest where ath11k is running. I'm not optimistic that this would
>>> solve your issue, I suspect there can be also other bugs, but good to
>>> know if the patch changes anything.
>>
>> Looks the same here, didn't seem to change anything based on the
>> kernel logs.
>> 
> Could you try this?
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c?id=39564b475ac5a589e6c22c43a08cbd283c295d2c

This reminds me, I assumed James was testing with ath.git master branch
(which has that commit) but I never checked that. So for testing please
always use the master branch to get the latest and greatest ath11k:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/

There's a quite long delay from ath.git to official releases.

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