[v4,0/3] wifi: MBSSID support in MLO

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Aloka Dixit March 10, 2025, 8:02 p.m. UTC

During non-transmitted (nontx) profile configuration, interface
index of the transmitted (tx) profile is used to retrieve the
wireless device (wdev) associated with it. With MLO, this 'wdev'
may be part of an MLD with more than one link, hence only
interface index is not sufficient anymore to retrieve the correct
tx profile. Add a new attribute to configure link id of tx profile.

Similarly, storing 'vif' of tx profile inside 'vif' for nontx
profiles is not sufficient for MLO, instead store tx link data
inside each nontx link data structure.

v4:
(1) Pre-requisite driver patches are merged in wireless-next
    hence this series should apply cleanly now.
(2) Refactored possible driver changes into a separate patch.
(3) Found a change missed in HWSIM causing compilation errors,
    replaced mbssid_tx_bss by tx_bss_conf and confirmed
    successful compilation.
(4) Replaced vif->bss_conf->ema_ap by link_conf->ema_ap.

Aloka Dixit (1):
  wifi: ath12k: pass link_conf for tx_arvif retrieval

Rameshkumar Sundaram (2):
  wifi: nl80211: add link id of transmitted profile for MLO MBSSID
  wifi: mac80211: restructure tx profile retrieval for MLO MBSSID

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c         | 10 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c         | 35 ++++++---
 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c |  7 +-
 include/net/cfg80211.h                        |  2 +
 include/net/mac80211.h                        |  7 +-
 include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h                  |  6 ++
 net/mac80211/cfg.c                            | 64 ++++++++++------
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h                    |  2 +
 net/mac80211/iface.c                          | 73 +++++++++++++------
 net/wireless/nl80211.c                        | 14 ++++
 10 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)


base-commit: fc56639937ce95a73c9876e39f8d18d1a8dd6a95