Re: [PATCH 01/13] wifi: cfg80211: Add provision to advertise multiple radio in one wiphy

Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2024-04-11T16:27:03Z

On 4/10/2024 11:38 PM, Maxime Bizon wrote:
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> On Wed, 2024-04-10 at 09:43 -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
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> Hello Jeff,
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>> Ben, the patches we have posted so far allow ath12k to either have
>> each phy assigned to a separate wiphy (legacy operation) or have
>> multiple phys assigned to a single wiphy (required for MLO
>> operation). In an upcoming patch we'll introduce a DT-driven
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> When the physical wiphy are grouped in a logical single wiphy, can we
> still do "legacy" operations on the individual physical wiphy ?
>

Please note that there will be only one wiphy when all the radios are
grouped together. However, there can be interfaces working concurrently
on each underlying radio advertised in this composite wiphy through
the proposed interface combination capability extensions.

> For example, starting a 5Ghz AP in ax-only mode, and at the same time
> creating a STA interface on 2.4GHz ?
>

Yes, such use cases continue to be supported in single wiphy mode.

> If not that's a regression. Changing DT (imply reboot) does not really
> fix the issue.
>

This is not the case really.

Vasanth