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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa@quicinc.com>
Cc: <ath12k@lists.infradead.org>,  <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac80211 callback
 operation functions
References: <20240103063731.3356060-1-quic_periyasa@quicinc.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:35:45 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20240103063731.3356060-1-quic_periyasa@quicinc.com> (Karthikeyan
	Periyasamy's message of "Wed, 3 Jan 2024 12:07:21 +0530")
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Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa@quicinc.com> writes:

> Currently, the existing mac80211 callback functions are defined assuming
> each link/radio is represented by a single mac80211 hw. In order to
> support multi link operation (MLO), need to move from the multi wiphy
> model to a single wiphy model. However, the single wiphy model allows
> multiple link/radio to be exposed by the same mac80211 hw. Therefore, we
> need to separate the link/radio specific handling within the mac80211
> callback operations. This way, the callback can be extended to support
> multiple link/radio in the future.
>
> 			Current Multi wiphy Model
>
> +---------------+            +---------------+            +-------------+
> |  Mac80211 hw  |            | Mac80211 hw   |            |Mac80211 hw  |
> |  private data |            | private data  |            |private data |
> |               |            |               |            |             |
> |               |            |               |            |             |
> |               |            |               |            |             |
> |   ar (2GHz)   |            |   ar (5GHz)   |            |  ar (6GHz)  |
> |               |            |               |            |             |
> |               |            |               |            |             |
> |               |            |               |            |             |
> +---------------+            +---------------+            +-------------+
>
>
>
>
> 			  Single wiphy Model
>
>                            +--------------+
>                            | Mac80211 hw  |
>                            | private data |
>                            |              |
>                            |ath12k hw (ah)|
>                            | +----------+ |
>                            | |ar (2GHz) | |
>                            | +----------+ |
>                            | |          | |
>                            | |ar (5GHz) | |
>                            | +----------+ |
>                            | |          | |
>                            | |ar (6GHz) | |
>                            | |          | |
>                            | +----------+ |
>                            +--------------+
>
>
> Karthikeyan Periyasamy (10):
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of config
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of bss info changed
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of conf tx
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of start
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of stop
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of update vif offload
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of configure filter
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of ampdu action
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of flush
>   wifi: ath12k: Refactor start vdev delay function

In the pending branch I renamed the patch titles like this, an example:

wifi: ath12k: refactor ath12k_mac_op_conf_tx()

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=bdb399b467daacabdc0e2127e03874d399f17a38

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