In some older devices, the min/max firmware API supported by
the driver depends on the specific device, when sharing the
the same MAC (config). For most newer devices, it really is
dependent on the MAC instead, since the firmware was frozen
for certain MAC types. However, in the future we expect also
freezes for RF types there.
To handle this most generally, add an API min/max to the MAC
config and then use the narrowest range prescribed by both,
if set.
For the newer MACs since 9000, move the configuration, there
was only a freeze on MAC+RF lines so far.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250509104454.2582160-2-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
There are a few conflicts between the work that went
into wireless and that's here now, resolve them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
iwlwifi is the driver of all Intel wifi devices since 2008.
Since then, the hardware has changed a lot, but the firmware
API has changed even more. The need to keep one driver that
supports all those different APIs led us to introduce a new
architecture circa 2012 which allowed us to keep the same
interface to the hardware (DMAs, Tx queues, etc...) with a
new layer to implement the mid-layer between mac80211 and
the firmware. The first component is called the 'transport'
and the latter is called 'operation_mode' a.k.a op_mode.
In 2013 we took advantage of the new architecture to
introduce iwlmvm which allowed us to implement the, then,
new firmware API. This op_mode supports 7260 and up, those
devices supports support at least VHT.
Since then, wifi evolved and so did the firmware. It became
much bigger and took a lot of functionality from the driver.
It became increasingly hard to keep the same op_mode for the
newest devices and we experienced frequent regressions on
older devices. In order to avoid those regressions and keep
the code maintainable, we decided it was about time to start
a new op_mode.
iwlmld is a new op_mode that supports BE200 or newer if the
firmware being used is 97.ucode or newer. If the user has
an older devices or BE200 with .96.ucode, iwlmvm will be
loaded. Of course, this op_mode selection is seamless.
All the features supported in iwlmvm are supported in
iwlmld besides a few seldom used use cases: injection and
Hotspot 2.0. Those are under work.
A few points about the implementation:
* iwlmld doesn't have any mutexes, it relies on the
wiphy_lock
* iwlmld is more "resource oriented": stations, links and
interfaces are allocated and freed only after all the
relevant flows are completed.
* Firmware notifications' sizes are validated in a more
structured way.
We would love to see this new op_mode merged in 6.15. The
firmware for this new driver (.97.ucode) is not yet publicly
available but it'll be sent very soon.
People eager to get an early version of this firmware can
contact Emmanuel at:
emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
I've listed the people who directly contributed
code, but many others from various teams have
contributed in other ways.
Co-developed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20250216094321.537988-1-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com/
[fix Kconfig, fix api/phy.h includes, SPDX tag and coding
style issues, duplicated includes per 0-day robot]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Revert commit dfdfe4be18 ("wifi: iwlwifi: remove retry loops in
start"), it turns out that there's an issue with the PNVM load
notification from firmware not getting processed, that this patch
has been somewhat successfully papering over. Since this is being
reported, revert the loop removal for now.
We will later at least clean this up to only attempt to retry if
there was a timeout, but currently we don't even bubble up the
failure reason to the correct layer, only returning NULL.
Fixes: dfdfe4be18 ("wifi: iwlwifi: remove retry loops in start")
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241022092212.4aa82a558a00.Ibdeff9c8f0d608bc97fc42024392ae763b6937b7@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Kalle Valo says:
====================
wireless-next patches for v6.11
The first "new features" pull request for v6.11 with changes both in
stack and in drivers. Nothing out of ordinary, except that we have
two conflicts this time:
net/mac80211/cfg.c
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240531124415.05b25e7a@canb.auug.org.au
drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240603110023.23572803@canb.auug.org.au
Major changes:
cfg80211/mac80211
* parse Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) data in mac80211 instead of in drivers
wilc1000
* read MAC address during probe to make it visible to user space
iwlwifi
* bump FW API to 91 for BZ/SC devices
* report 64-bit radiotap timestamp
* enable P2P low latency by default
* handle Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) advertised by AP
* start using guard()
rtlwifi
* RTL8192DU support
ath12k
* remove unsupported tx monitor handling
* channel 2 in 6 GHz band support
* Spatial Multiplexing Power Save (SMPS) in 6 GHz band support
* multiple BSSID (MBSSID) and Enhanced Multi-BSSID Advertisements (EMA)
support
* dynamic VLAN support
* add panic handler for resetting the firmware state
ath10k
* add qcom,no-msa-ready-indicator Device Tree property
* LED support for various chipsets
* tag 'wireless-next-2024-06-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (194 commits)
wifi: ath12k: add hw_link_id in ath12k_pdev
wifi: ath12k: add panic handler
wifi: rtw89: chan: Use swap() in rtw89_swap_sub_entity()
wifi: brcm80211: remove unused structs
wifi: brcm80211: use sizeof(*pointer) instead of sizeof(type)
wifi: ath12k: do not process consecutive RDDM event
dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k: Drop "qcom,ipq8074-wcss-pil" from example
wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12k_dp_rx_peer_frag_setup()
wifi: rtlwifi: handle return value of usb init TX/RX
wifi: rtlwifi: Enable the new rtl8192du driver
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/sw.c
wifi: rtlwifi: Constify rtl_hal_cfg.{ops,usb_interface_cfg} and rtl_priv.cfg
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/dm.{c,h}
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/fw.{c,h} and rtl8192du/led.{c,h}
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/rf.{c,h}
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/trx.{c,h}
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/phy.{c,h}
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/hw.{c,h}
wifi: rtlwifi: Add new members to struct rtl_priv for RTL8192DU
wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/table.{c,h}
...
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
====================
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607093517.41394C2BBFC@smtp.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Given how late we are in the cycle, merge the two fixes from
wireless into wireless-next as they don't see that urgent.
This way, the wireless tree won't need rebasing later.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
There are some changes coming to wireless-next that will
otherwise cause conflicts, pull wireless in first to be
able to resolve that when applying the individual changes
rather than having to do merge resolution later.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
There's a race when the device is unbound (maybe because the
module is unloaded) while the opmode start hasn't finished yet.
The complete(request_firmware_complete) after the opmode start
was meant (and commented accordingly) to prevent this problem,
but it's not sufficient when the opmode module is loaded after
the firmware load already completed, which happens regularly
now because firmware load doesn't require userspace, unlike
module load.
Fix this by using the existing opmode registration mutex to
protected the start/stop flows against each other properly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926110319.85951554fed8.I62f20f40d79d0f136fa05e46d7fc16dc437fa3db@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
All the configurations for the various Bz/Gl devices
are basically identical, except for Gl A-step and the
firmware filename prefixes.
Add some infrastructure to auto-generate the firmware
filename prefix based on the detected MAC step and
RF name/step, and remove all the unneeded configs.
This reduces the size of the iwlwifi module by ~9k:
517582 27111 560 545253 851e5 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
526885 27083 560 554528 87620 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621130443.1dc121ba338f.I07d651516eb82cbaded4724ef30558a50f2fa866@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
