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Re: [PATCH 1/2] wifi: ath11k: supports 2 station interfaces

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On 11.05.24 05:12, Carl Huang wrote:
> On 2024/5/10 21:57, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Carl Huang <quic_cjhuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> On 2024/5/10 18:18, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>> "Luca Weiss" <luca.weiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>> On Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 4:38 AM CEST, Carl Huang wrote:
>>>>>> Add hardware parameter support_dual_stations to indicate
>>>>>> whether 2 station interfaces are supported. For chips which
>>>>>> support this feature, limit total number of AP interface and
>>>>>> mesh point to 1. The max interfaces are 3 for such chips.
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>> Unfortunately this commit breaks wifi on a QCM6490 smartphone
>>>>> (qcm6490-fairphone-fp5) and makes the board crash.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reverting this commit (plus for conflict resolution 5dc9d1a55e95
>>>>> ("wifi:
>>>>> ath11k: add support for QCA2066") and 24395ec11707 ("wifi: ath11k:
>>>>> provide address list if chip supports 2 stations")) makes wifi work
>>>>> again.
>>>> Thanks for the report. So the broken commit is:
>>>> f019f4dff2e4 wifi: ath11k: support 2 station interfaces
>>>> This went into v6.9-rc1 so I'm guessing that WCN6750 support will be
>>>> fully broken in v6.9? Not good. And most likely Linus will release v6.9
>>>> on Sunday so it's too late to get a fix included in the final release.
>>>> Carl, can you fix this ASAP? Or should we just revert the broken
>>>> commits?
>>> Kalle, looks we're not able to fix it before Sunday as I don't have
>>> WCN6750 setup to verify the fix.
>> We are so late in the cycle that we would have to send the fix directly
>> to Linus and ask him to apply the fix before he tags the release. I
>> prefer that we are on the safe side here and send the fix to v6.10-rc1
>> via the usual route (the wireless tree). We get more testing time that
>> way.
>>
> No problem, Kalle.
> 
> I think more tags are needed like Tested-on WCN6750 and Tested-by Luca.
> 
> I'll send out the formal patch next week.

Hmmm, from here it looks like this did not happen. Did I miss something,
is there some reason to reevaluate things again, or did this maybe
simply fall through the cracks?

Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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>>> The fix could be to define a dedicated function
>>> ath11k_init_wmi_config_wcn6750() for WCN6750. I'll send the patch out
>>> so others like Luca can have a try.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick patches!
>>
> 
> 




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