Declare this function allows us to use customized scanning policy, so
each scan takes less time. This is a similar implementation to hw_scan
in rtw88, except that we offload more items to firmware and extend the
maximum IE length. For backward compatibility, we fallback to sw_scan
when firmware does not support this feature.
Signed-off-by: Po Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220225030851.13327-2-pkshih@realtek.com
This driver named rtw89, which is the next generation of rtw88, supports
Realtek 8852AE 802.11ax 2x2 chip whose new features are OFDMA, DBCC,
Spatial reuse, TWT and BSS coloring; now some of them aren't implemented
though.
The chip architecture is entirely different from the chips supported by
rtw88 like RTL8822CE 802.11ac chip. First of all, register address ranges
are totally redefined, so it's impossible to reuse register definition. To
communicate with firmware, new H2C/C2H format is proposed. In order to have
better utilization, TX DMA flow is changed to two stages DMA. To provide
rich RX status information, additional RX PPDU packets are added.
Since there are so many differences mentioned above, we decide to propose
a new driver. It has many authors, they are listed in alphabetic order:
Chin-Yen Lee <timlee@realtek.com>
Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Po Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Vincent Fann <vincent_fann@realtek.com>
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <tony0620emma@gmail.com>
Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211008035627.19463-1-pkshih@realtek.com
