Re: [PATCH net] wifi: ath12k: properly set single_chip_mlo_supp to true in ath12k_core_alloc()
From: Dmitry Baryshkov
Date: Wed Mar 19 2025 - 07:52:13 EST
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 05:02:39PM +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
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> On 3/19/2025 3:57 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 19/03/2025 10:06, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > base-commit: 7eb172143d5508b4da468ed59ee857c6e5e01da6
> > > > > > change-id: 20250303-topic-ath12k-fix-crash-49e9055c61a1
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Best regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > NAK since this will break QCN
> > > > > There is a series under internal review to address MLO issues for WCN chipsets
> > > >
> > > > ???
> > > >
> > > > The original commit is wrong, this fixes the conversion, nothing else.
> > >
> > > Nope. Driver changes to enable MLO with WCN chipset are not there yet.
> > > Setting the mlo capability flag without having required driver changes
> > > for WCN chipset will likely result in firmware crash. So the recommendation
> > > is to enable MLO (in WCN) only when all the necessary driver changes
> > > (in development, public posting in near future) are in place.
> > Really, these are your answers? There is regression and first reply is
> > upstream should wait for whatever you do internally. Second answer is
> > the same - public posting in near future?
> >
>
> May be I was not clear in my response. I was not telling MLO bug fixes were
> in the development. Actually the MLO feature itself is not enabled
> yet with WCN chip sets. Any code changes enabling it without full feature
> support would result in firmware crashes with the existing firmware binaries
> available in upstream.
Is there an undocumented change of the behaviour in the commit
46d16f7e1d14 ("wifi: ath12k: rename mlo_capable_flags to
single_chip_mlo_supp")?
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With best wishes
Dmitry