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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:26:11 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] wifi: ath12k: Add single wiphy support
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To: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>, <ath12k@lists.infradead.org>
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From: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com>
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On 3/21/2024 2:30 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 3/20/2024 12:09 PM, Rameshkumar Sundaram wrote:
>> From: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com>
>>
>> With the introduction of Multi Link Operation (MLO) support in
>> IEEE802.11be, each EHT AP/non AP interface is capable of
>> operating with multiple radio links.
>>
>> cfg80211/mac80211 expects drivers to abstract the communication
>> between such Multi Link HW and mac80211/cfg80211 since it depends
>> on different driver/HW implementation. Hence the single wiphy
>> abstraction with changes in datastructures were introduced in
>> "wifi: ath12k: Introduce hw abstraction"
>>
>> This patchset extends the implementation to allow combination
>> of multiple underlying radios into a single composite hw/wiphy
>> for registration. Since now multiple radios are represented by
>> a single wiphy, changes are required in various mac ops that the
>> driver supports since the driver now needs to learn on how to tunnel
>> various mac ops properly to a specific radio.
>>
>> This patchset covers the basic mac80211 ops for an interface bring up
>> and operation.
>>
>> Note:
>> Monitor and hw reconfig support for Single Wiphy will be done in future
>> patchsets.
>>
>> ---
>>   v5:
>>   - Addressed Jeff's comments
>>   - Made arvif config cache to be dynamic in PATCH 07/12
> 
> In the future please be specific about what patches in the series were
> modified so that reviewers don't have to spend time reviewing the parts that
> didn't change.
> 
Sure will follow this for future patches.