The regulatory domain information was initialized every time the
FW was loaded and the device was restarted. This was unnecessary
and useless as at this stage the wiphy channels information was
not setup yet so while the regulatory domain was set to the wiphy,
the channel information was not updated.
In case that a specific MCC was configured during FW initialization
then following updates with this MCC are ignored, and thus the
wiphy channels information is left with information not matching
the regulatory domain.
This commit moves the regulatory domain initialization to after the
operational firmware is started, i.e., after the wiphy channels were
configured and the regulatory information is needed.
Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250604061200.f138a7382093.I2fd8b3e99be13c2687da483e2cb1311ffb4fbfce@changeid
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
There are a number of MAC parameters that are in the iwl_cfg
(which is the last config matched to the MAC/RF combination).
This isn't necessary, there are many more of those than MACs,
so move (most of) the data into the MAC family config struct.
Note that DCCM information remains for use by older devices,
and on 9000 series it'll be in struct iwl_cfg but be ignored
when the CRF is in a Qu/So platform.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508121306.1277801-15-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
From the moment that we have ALIVE, we can receive notification that
are handled asynchronously.
Some notifications (for example iwl_rfi_support_notif) requires an
operational FW. So we need to make sure that they were handled in
iwl_op_mode_mld_start before we stop the FW. Flush the async_handlers_wk
there to achieve that.
Also, if loading the FW in op mode start failed, we need to cancel
these notifications, as they are from a dead FW.
More than that, not doing so can cause us to access freed memory
if async_handlers_wk is executed after ieee80211_free_hw is called.
Fix this by canceling all async notifications if a failure occurred in
init (after ALIVE).
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250423091408.a8f63d983466.Ifd77d9c1a29fdd278b0a7bfc2709dd5d5e5efdb1@changeid
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>
