Re: [PATCH v3 00/49] ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices

From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath11k@lists.infradead.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/49] ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 08:26:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0101016e975ec74d-5c7043cf-f7c1-4301-939a-783203f9c80d-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1573810153-29623-1-git-send-email-kvalo@codeaurora.org> (Kalle Valo's message of "Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:28:24 +0200")

Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> writes:

> ath11k is a new driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices, first
> supporting only IPQ8074 SoC using the shared memory AHB bus. ath11k
> uses mac80211 and supports AP, Station and Mesh modes.
>
> Even though ath11k has some similar code as with ath10k (especially
> the WMI layer) it was concluded to be simpler to have a "clean start"
> for ath11k code base and not try to share the code with ath10k. This
> makes maintenance easier and avoids major changes in ath10k, which
> would have significantly increased the risk of regressions in existing
> setups.
>
> Even though the driver is very similar with ath10k but there are major
> differences as well. The datapath is completely different. ath11k
> supports multiple MACs, called "soc" in the firmware interface. And
> there's only one WMI interface to support.
>
> Currently ath11k supports only IEEE 802.11ac mode, but patches for
> 802.11ax are available and they will be submitted after ath11k is
> accepted to upstream.
>
> The firmware images are available from ath11k-firmware repository but
> they will be also submitted to linux-firmware:
>
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware

I also added to the commit log the version which was used in testing:

WLAN.HK.2.1.0.1-00629-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

> --------------[cut]-------------------[cut]-----------------
>
> I have split the driver into multiple patches for easier review, but
> the final version will be split into three commits:
>
> 1. adding Documentatio/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml
>
> 2. adding drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ with the commit log being the
>    text before the cut line above.
>
> 3. adding ath11k entry to MAINTAINERS file
>
> This version is based on commit ad10d2ff619f0797cb102b2ff488429d3f8e4a8a
> from ath11k-bringup branch on my ath.git tree:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/log/?h=ath11k-bringup
>
> This patchset applies to wireless-drivers-next but needs
> CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST, CONFIG_REMOTEPROC AND CONFIG_QCOM_QMI_HELPERS to
> be able to compile on x86.
>
> Please review and comment.

I have now prepared the three commits and they are in the pending
branch for build testing:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=20bddf19da715842fe24c8e9990ae1b75825c747

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=461a5c86cfa562bd3c4a8f6bec9a54c406540e87

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=8710785df81b8b57e62a71e9048c111a7db98005

In the next few days I'll apply these to ath-next branch and queue for v5.6.

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