Re: [PATCH] ath11k: add regdb.bin download for regdb offload

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Wen Gong <quic_wgong@quicinc.com> writes:

> The regdomain is self-managed type for ath11k, the regdomain info is
> reported from firmware, it is not from wireless regdb. Firmware fetch
> the regdomain info from board data file before. Currently most of the
> regdomain info has moved to another file regdb.bin from board data
> file for some chips such as QCA6390 and WCN6855, so the regdomain info
> left in board data file is not enough to support the feature which need
> more reg rules such as 6 GHz LPI, SP and VLP.
>
> After download regdb.bin, firmware will fetch the regdomain info from
> regdb.bin instead of board data file and report to ath11k. If it does
> not have the file regdb.bin, it also can initialize wlan success and
> firmware then fetch regdomain info from board data file.
>
> Add download the regdb.bin before download board data for some specific
> chip which support supports_regdb in hardware parameters.
>
> download regdb.bin log:
> [430082.334162] ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: chip_id 0x2 chip_family 0xb board_id 0x106 soc_id 0x400c0200
> [430082.334169] ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: fw_version 0x110c8b4c fw_build_timestamp 2021-10-25 07:41 fw_build_id QC_IMAGE_VERSION_STRING=WLAN.HSP.1.1-02892-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3
> [430082.334414] ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: boot firmware request ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.0/regdb.bin size 24310
>
> output of "iw reg get"
> global
> country US: DFS-FCC
>         (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
>         (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), AUTO-BW
>         (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
>         (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 23), (0 ms), DFS
>         (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
>         (57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A)
>
> phy#0 (self-managed)
> country US: DFS-FCC
>         (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 30), (N/A)
>         (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (N/A), AUTO-BW
>         (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
>         (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
>         (5735 - 5895 @ 160), (N/A, 30), (N/A), AUTO-BW
>         (5945 - 7125 @ 160), (N/A, 24), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW
>
> Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-01740-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-01720.1-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1
>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <quic_wgong@quicinc.com>

This adds new warnings for QCA6390:

[  182.941223] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qmi failed to fetch board file: -2
[  190.847925] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qmi failed to fetch board file: -2
[  198.736044] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qmi failed to fetch board file: -2
[  209.274650] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qmi failed to fetch board file: -2
[  233.441116] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qmi failed to fetch board file: -2

The patches really should be warning free, whenever you test patches
please make sure that they don't add new warnings.

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