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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 8/8] wifi: ath12k: move ath12k_hw from per soc to group
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To: Harshitha Prem <quic_hprem@quicinc.com>, <ath12k@lists.infradead.org>
CC: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        Karthikeyan Periyasamy
	<quic_periyasa@quicinc.com>
References: <20240522095439.2596989-1-quic_hprem@quicinc.com>
 <20240522095439.2596989-9-quic_hprem@quicinc.com>
From: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
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On 5/22/2024 2:54 AM, Harshitha Prem wrote:
> From: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa@quicinc.com>
> 
> Currently, hardware abstractions (ah) of different radio bands
> are tightly coupled to a single device (ab). But, with hardware
> device group abstraction (ag), multiple radios across different
> devices in a group can possibly form different combinations of
> hardware abstractions (ah) within the group. Hence, the mapping
> between ah to ab can be removed and instead it can be mapped with ag.
> 
> Please find below illustration of how mapping between ath12k_hw (ah),
> ath12k_base (ab) and ath12k_hw_group (ag) is changed.
> 
>         current mapping of hardware abstraction (ah) with device (ab)
>             +------------------------------------------------+
>             |  +-------------------------------------+       |
>             |  | +---------------+ +---------------+ |       |
>             |  | |ath12k_hw (ah) | |ath12k_hw (ah) | |       |
>             |  | +---------------+ +---------------+ |       |
>             |  |                                     |       |
>             |  |  +-----------+ |   +-----------+    |       |
>             |  |  | ar (2GHz) | |   | ar (5GHz) |    |       |
>             |  |  +-----------+ |   +-----------+    |       |
>             |  |          Dual band device-1 (ab)    |       |
>             |  +-------------------------------------+       |
>             |    ath12k_hw_group (ag) based on group id      |
>             +------------------------------------------------+
> 
>                 After, with hardware device group abstraction
>                 (moving ah array out of ab to ag)
>             +----------------------------------------------+
>             |   +---------------+  +---------------+       |
>             |   |ath12k_hw (ah) |  |ath12k_hw (ah) |       |
>             |   +---------------+  +---------------+       |
>             |  +-------------------------------------+     |
>             |  | +-----------+     +-----------+     |     |
>             |  | | ar (2GHz) |     | ar (5GHz) |     |     |
>             |  | +-----------+     +-----------+     |     |
>             |  |     Dual band device-1 (ab)         |     |
>             |  +-------------------------------------+     |
>             |   ath12k_hw_group (ag) based on group id     |
>             +----------------------------------------------+
> 
> This decoupling of ath12k_hw (ah) from ath12k_base (ab) and mapping it
> to ath12k_hw_group (ag) will help in forming different combinations of
> multi-link devices.
> 
> 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 (6 GHz) 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.
> 
> Hence, Add changes to decouple ath12k_hw (ah) from ath12k_base (ab) and
> map it to ath12k_hw_group (ag).
> 
> Refactor the following APIs to help simplify the registration based on
> ath12k_hw_group (ag) rather than ath12k_base (ab)
>         * ath12k_mac_allocate()
>         * ath12k_mac_destroy()
>         * ath12k_mac_register()
>         * ath12k_mac_unregister()
> 
> Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa@quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Harshitha Prem <quic_hprem@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>