[PATCH] wifi: ath12k: enable WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT

Kalle Valo kvalo at kernel.org
Thu Apr 18 08:21:08 PDT 2024


Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> wrote:

> ath12k will support Multi-Link Operation (MLO) in the future but not yet. A
> major change with MLO is that cfg80211 will disable Wireless Extension (WEXT)
> user space interface. To avoid having inconsistent user experience, first
> supporting WEXT and later not, disable WEXT already now.
> 
> Now ath12k claims that WEXT is not supported:
> 
> $ iwconfig wlan0
> wlan0     no wireless extensions.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo at quicinc.com>
> Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

03a509740b5d wifi: ath12k: enable WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_WEXT

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