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Re: [PATCH 01/13] wifi: cfg80211: Add provision to advertise multiple radio in one wiphy

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On 3/29/24 07:30, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 19:41 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:

+ * @hw_chans: list of the channels supported by every constituent underlying
+ *	hardware. Drivers abstracting multiple discrete hardware (radio) under
+ *	one wiphy can advertise the list of channels supported by each physical
+ *	hardware in this list. Underlying hardware specific channel list can be
+ *	used while describing interface combination for each of them.

I'd expect there to be a limit on channels being within a single band on
a single "hardware"?


There are ath12k hardware supporting multiple band which need to be
registered under one mac80211_hw/wiphy. This design is to support such
hardware.

Oh OK, that was something that I didn't have in mind any more, or never
knew or paid attention to.

Would it work to leave the phy reporting pretty much as it is now, but add
a 'associated_peer_radios' list section, so that each phy could report the phys
associated with it?  Then user-space, driver, mac80211 etc could look up the
other phys as needed to get a full picture?

At least with mtk 7996, it appears there will be 3 single-band phys can can be used
independently, but I assume when they have MLO support, those three will be logically
grouped.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com





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