Re: [PATCH 05/12] wifi: ath12k: scan statemachine changes for single wiphy

Jeff Johnson
2024-01-12T17:13:35Z

On 1/10/2024 8:50 PM, Sriram R wrote:
> When multiple radios are advertised as a single wiphy which
> supports various bands, a default scan request to mac80211
> from cfg80211 will split the driver request based on band,
> so each request will have channels belonging to the same band.
> With this supported by default, the ath12k driver on receiving
> this request checks for one of the channels in the request and
> selects the corresponding radio(ar) on which the scan is going
> to be performed and creates a vdev on that radio.
>
> Note that on scan completion this vdev is not deleted. If a new
> scan request is seen on that same vif for a different band the
> vdev will be deleted and created on the new radio supporting the
> request. The vdev delete logic is refactored to have this done
> dynamically.
>
> The reason for not deleting the vdev on scan stop is to avoid
> repeated delete-create sequence if the scan is on the same band.
> Also, during channel assign, new vdev creation can be optimized
> as well.
>
> Also if the scan is requested when the vdev is in started state,
> no switching to new radio is allowed and scan on channels only
> within same radio is allowed.
>
> Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3
>
> Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>