Re: [PATCH v2 00/50] wifi: ath12k: driver for Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> writes:

> From: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
>
> ath12k is a new mac80211 driver for Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices, first
> supporting QCN9274 and WCN7850 PCI devices.  QCN9274 supports both AP
> and station; WCN7850 supports only station mode. Monitor mode is not
> (yet) supported. Only PCI bus devices are supported.
>
> ath12k is forked from an earlier version of ath11k. It was simpler to
> have a "clean start" for the new generation and not try to share the
> code with ath11k. This makes maintenance easier and avoids major
> changes in ath11k, which would have significantly increased the risk
> of regressions in existing setups.
>
> ath12k uses le32 and cpu_to_le32() macros to handle endian
> conversions, instead of using the firmware byte swap feature utilized
> by ath11k. There is only one kernel module, named ath12k.ko.
>
> Currently ath12k only supports HE mode (IEEE 802.11ax) or older, but
> work is ongoing to add EHT mode (IEEE 802.11be) support.
>
> The size of the driver is ~41 kLOC and 45 files. To make the review
> easier, this initial version of ath12k does not support Device Tree,
> debugfs or any other extra features. Those will be added later, after
> ath12k is accepted to upstream.
>
> The driver is build tested by Intel's kernel test robot with both GCC
> and Clang. Sparse reports no warnings. The driver is mostly free of
> checkpatch warnings, albeit few of the warnings are omitted on
> purpose, list of them here:
>
> https://github.com/qca/qca-swiss-army-knife/blob/master/tools/scripts/ath12k/ath12k-check#L52
>
> The driver has had multiple authors who are listed in alphabetical
> order below.
>
> Co-developed-by: Balamurugan S <quic_bselvara@quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Balamurugan S <quic_bselvara@quicinc.com>
> Co-developed-by: Balamurugan Selvarajan <quic_bselvara@quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Balamurugan Selvarajan <quic_bselvara@quicinc.com>

I noticed that Balamurugan is twice here, fixed in the pending branch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=master-pending&id=b644733d58cb65d2e319bad0e0f89a852021c5c2

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