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Subject: [PATCH 0/8] wifi: ath12k: Introduce device group abstraction
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:07:42 +0530
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To support multi-link operation, multiple devices with different bands say
2 GHz or 5 GHz or 6 GHz can be combined together as a group and provide
an abstraction to mac80211.

Device group abstraction - when there are multiple devices that are
connected by any means of communication interface between them, then these
devices can be combined together as a single group using a group id to form
a group abstraction. In ath12k driver, this abstraction would be named as
ath12k_hw_group (ag).

Please find below illustration of device group abstraction with two
devices.

                 Grouping of multiple devices (in future)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  +-------------------------------------+       +-------------------+   |
|  |   +-----------+ | | +-----------+   |       |   +-----------+   |   |
|  |   | ar (2GHz) | | | | ar (5GHz) |   |       |   | ar (6GHz) |   |   |
|  |   +-----------+ | | +-----------+   |       |   +-----------+   |   |
|  |          ath12k_base (ab)           |       | ath12k_base (ab)  |   |
|  |         (Dual band device)          |       |                   |   |
|  +-------------------------------------+       +-------------------+   |
|                 ath12k_hw_group (ag) based on group id                 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Say for example, device 1 has two radios (2 GHz and 5 GHz band) and
device 2 has one radio (6 GHz).

In existing code -
        device 1 will have two hardware abstractions hw1 (2 GHz) and hw2
        (5 GHz) will be registered separately to mac80211 as phy0 and phy1
        respectively. Similarly, device 2 will register its hw (6GHz) as
        phy2 to mac80211.

In future, with multi-link abstraction

        combination 1 - Different group id for device1 and device 2
                Device 1 will create a single hardware abstraction hw1
                (2 GHz and  5 GHz) and will be registered to mac80211 as
                phy0. similarly, device 2 will register its hardware
                (6 GHz) to mac80211 as phy1.

        combination 2 - Same group id for device1 and device 2
                Both device details are combined together as a group, say
                group1, with single hardware abstraction of radios 2 GHz,
                5 GHz and 6 GHz band details and will be registered to
                mac80211 as phy0.

Add base infrastructure changes to add device grouping abstraction with
a single device.

This patch series brings the base code changes with following order:
        1. Refactor existing code which would facilitate in introducing
           device group abstraction.
        2. Create a device group abstraction during device probe.
        3. Start the device group only after QMI firmware ready event is
           received for all the devices that are combined in the group.
        4. Move the hardware abstractions (ath12k_hw - ah) from device
           (ath12k_base - ab) to device group abstraction (ag) as it would
           ease in having different combinations of group abstraction that
           can be registered to mac80211.


Depends-on:
        [PATCH 0/3] wifi: ath12k: Refactor the hardware recovery
procedures


Karthikeyan Periyasamy (8):
  wifi: ath12k: Refactor core start api
  wifi: ath12k: Add helpers to get or set ath12k_hw
  wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_get_num_hw api
  wifi: ath12k: Introduce QMI firmware ready flag
  wifi: ath12k: move ATH12K_FLAG_REGISTERED flag set to mac_register api
  wifi: ath12k: Introduce device group abstraction
  wifi: ath12k: refactor core start based on hardware group
  wifi: ath12k: move ath12k_hw from per soc to group

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c | 428 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h |  88 ++++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c  | 111 +++++--
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.h  |   9 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/pci.c  |   1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/qmi.c  |  11 +-
 6 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)


base-commit: c416602943dd36fbd13af7496430723935c867a3
prerequisite-patch-id: a4d62344b11368fb7e549c03b6a31f7ba4c9e2bb
prerequisite-patch-id: b4a1e18a85d8c1e337fa133c2bd2956c33b11046
prerequisite-patch-id: b16edd310baa35e2500267e338f60c9a2e6594e1
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2.34.1