From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7265D8BE2 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:35:48 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="VCsQuhY7" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 38D0FC433C7; Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:35:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1705332948; bh=yHZKmeXhQWua2LT7+setasCLUF/ot995lzkKJhmsS6Y=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=VCsQuhY71D7udhp0cWBDWk05XvZ6EeWqwybkVSgG4UkH+RC1L593tLwixK2X6VmWD A7YrivuOgQP5k5mBcR1+BMiPEREz2AgJzT/8UqyBvnfHNnlHhhI70tDyzY7CsZ14o2 qybgmRxynXZYh8SNexAitvXq3PROKWnJ69xsLbGV0Tf1UyIkfo7Mxbaj4CZzKZTxr6 izXJYGp4xtjVdbamQ6O2RmsL8W83JwSU3ak2YPPdqy4seb8HgP1R7vO++cnmVxaH4E g+nPEYMjcFf+8YWJx1f/dVh29v4nz0XhtzFqf+lNpQai+TC1UflcO3Np74QuTdksZS zTmm+5wk2GscQ== From: Kalle Valo To: Karthikeyan Periyasamy Cc: , Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac80211 callback operation functions References: <20240103063731.3356060-1-quic_periyasa@quicinc.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:35:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20240103063731.3356060-1-quic_periyasa@quicinc.com> (Karthikeyan Periyasamy's message of "Wed, 3 Jan 2024 12:07:21 +0530") Message-ID: <87r0ii7goe.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Karthikeyan Periyasamy writes: > Currently, the existing mac80211 callback functions are defined assuming > each link/radio is represented by a single mac80211 hw. In order to > support multi link operation (MLO), need to move from the multi wiphy > model to a single wiphy model. However, the single wiphy model allows > multiple link/radio to be exposed by the same mac80211 hw. Therefore, we > need to separate the link/radio specific handling within the mac80211 > callback operations. This way, the callback can be extended to support > multiple link/radio in the future. > > Current Multi wiphy Model > > +---------------+ +---------------+ +-------------+ > | Mac80211 hw | | Mac80211 hw | |Mac80211 hw | > | private data | | private data | |private data | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | ar (2GHz) | | ar (5GHz) | | ar (6GHz) | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > +---------------+ +---------------+ +-------------+ > > > > > Single wiphy Model > > +--------------+ > | Mac80211 hw | > | private data | > | | > |ath12k hw (ah)| > | +----------+ | > | |ar (2GHz) | | > | +----------+ | > | | | | > | |ar (5GHz) | | > | +----------+ | > | | | | > | |ar (6GHz) | | > | | | | > | +----------+ | > +--------------+ > > > Karthikeyan Periyasamy (10): > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of config > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of bss info changed > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of conf tx > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of start > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of stop > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of update vif offload > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of configure filter > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of ampdu action > wifi: ath12k: Refactor mac callback of flush > wifi: ath12k: Refactor start vdev delay function In the pending branch I renamed the patch titles like this, an example: wifi: ath12k: refactor ath12k_mac_op_conf_tx() https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=bdb399b467daacabdc0e2127e03874d399f17a38 -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches