Re: [PATCH 0/2] wifi: ath: Use static calibration variant table for devicetree platforms

[Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 11/14/2025 6:22 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series aims to deprecate the usage of "qcom,*calibration-variant"
> devicetree property to select the calibration variant for the WLAN devices. This
> is necessary for WLAN devices connected using PCI bus, as hardcoding the device
> specific information in PCI devicetree node causes the node to be updated every
> time when a new device variant is attached to the PCI slot. This approach is not
> scalable and causes bad user experience.

I am not very clear about the problem here: is calibration variant device/module specific,
or platform specific? If it is module specific, why the lookup is based on the machine
'model' property? While if it is platform specific, why do we need to update devicetree
node whenever a new device is attached?

> 
> So to avoid relying on the "qcom,*calibration-variant" property, this series
> introduces a new static calibration variant table based lookup. The newly
> introduced helper, ath_get_calib_variant() will parse the model name from
> devicetree and use it to do the variant lookup during runtime. The
> ath_calib_variant_table[] will hold all the model and calibration variant
> entries for the supported devices.
> 
> Going forward, new entries will be added to this table to support calibration
> variants.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
> Manivannan Sadhasivam (2):
>       wifi: ath: Use static calibration variant table for devicetree platforms
>       dt-bindings: wireless: ath: Deprecate 'qcom,calibration-variant' property
> 
>  .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.yaml         |  1 +
>  .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k-pci.yaml     |  3 +-
>  .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml         |  1 +
>  .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath12k-wsi.yaml     |  6 +-
>  .../bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ipq5332-wifi.yaml   |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.h                     | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c             |  5 ++
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c             |  7 ++
>  8 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 3a8660878839faadb4f1a6dd72c3179c1df56787
> change-id: 20251114-ath-variant-tbl-22865456a527
> 
> Best regards,