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From: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, <quic_periyasa@quicinc.com>,
	<ath12k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/7] cfg80211/mac80211: support defining multiple radios per wiphy
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 15:30:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f751d310-4cbb-4562-947b-a0a76edb6b40@quicinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.c104c0bb3a14f4ac26aee71f4979846f6ad87742.1717611760.git-series.nbd@nbd.name>

On 6/6/24 00:01, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> The prerequisite for MLO support in cfg80211/mac80211 is that all the links
> participating in MLO must be from the same wiphy/ieee80211_hw. To meet this
> expectation, some drivers may need to group multiple discrete hardware each
> acting as a link in MLO under single wiphy.
> 
> With this series, the bands and supported frequencies of each individual
> radio are reported to user space. This allows user space to figure out the
> limitations of what combination of channels can be used concurrently.
> 
> Each mac80211 channel context is assigned to a radio based on radio specific
> frequency ranges and interface combinations.
> 
> This is loosely based on Karthikeyan Periyasamy's series
> "[PATCH 00/13] wifi: Add multi physical hardware iface combination support"
> with some differences:
> 
>   - a struct wiphy_radio is defined, which holds the frequency ranges and
>     a full struct ieee80211_iface_combination array
>   - a channel context is explicitly assigned to a radio when created
>   - both global and per-radio interface combination limits are checked
>     and enforced on channel context assignment
> 
> Changes since RFC:
>   - replace static per-radio number of channels limit with full ifcomb
>     checks
>   - remove band bitmask in favor of only using freq ranges

What about handling 2 GHz + 5 GHz issue we discussed in v1 related to 
radar detection width and num chan ctx? Is that taken care?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-06 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-05 18:31 [RFC v2 0/7] cfg80211/mac80211: support defining multiple radios per wiphy Felix Fietkau
2024-06-05 18:31 ` [RFC v2 1/7] wifi: nl80211: split helper function from nl80211_put_iface_combinations Felix Fietkau
2024-06-05 18:31 ` [RFC v2 2/7] wifi: cfg80211: add support for advertising multiple radios belonging to a wiphy Felix Fietkau
2024-06-05 18:31 ` [RFC v2 3/7] wifi: cfg80211: extend interface combination check for multi-radio Felix Fietkau
2024-06-06  7:20   ` Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2024-06-06  7:55     ` Felix Fietkau
2024-06-06  8:56       ` Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2024-06-06  8:58         ` Felix Fietkau
2024-06-06  9:52           ` Karthikeyan Periyasamy
2024-06-06  9:57             ` Felix Fietkau
2024-06-05 18:31 ` [RFC v2 4/7] wifi: mac80211: add radio index to ieee80211_chanctx_conf Felix Fietkau
2024-06-05 18:31 ` [RFC v2 5/7] wifi: mac80211: extend ifcomb check functions for multi-radio Felix Fietkau
2024-06-05 18:31 ` [RFC v2 6/7] wifi: mac80211: move code in ieee80211_link_reserve_chanctx to a helper Felix Fietkau
2024-06-05 18:31 ` [RFC v2 7/7] wifi: mac80211: add wiphy radio assignment and validation Felix Fietkau
2024-06-06 10:00 ` Aditya Kumar Singh [this message]
2024-06-06 10:10   ` [RFC v2 0/7] cfg80211/mac80211: support defining multiple radios per wiphy Felix Fietkau

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