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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/trace.h, branch v6.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: improve stop/wake queue tracing</title>
<updated>2025-01-13T14:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emmanuel Grumbach</name>
<email>emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-01T05:05:28+00:00</published>
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Add the refcount. This can be useful when we want to understand why a
queue stays stopped after it is woken.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250101070249.bd320c6e6702.I6ae0f19d922aea1f28236d72bf260acac428fc02@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Add the refcount. This can be useful when we want to understand why a
queue stays stopped after it is woken.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250101070249.bd320c6e6702.I6ae0f19d922aea1f28236d72bf260acac428fc02@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: add some support for RX OMI power saving</title>
<updated>2025-01-13T14:26:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-01T05:05:21+00:00</published>
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In order to save power, it can be desirable to change the
RX operating mode using OMI to reduce the bandwidth. As the
handshake must be done in the HTC+ field, it cannot be done
by mac80211 directly, so expose functions to the driver to
request and finalize the necessary updates.

Note that RX OMI really only changes what the peer (AP) will
transmit to us, but in order to use it to actually save some
power (by reducing the listen bandwidth) we also update rate
scaling and then the channel context's mindef accordingly.

The updates are split into two in order to sequence them
correctly, when reducing bandwidth first reduce the rate
scaling and thus TX, then send OMI, then reduce the listen
bandwidth (chandef); when increasing bandwidth this is the
other way around. This also requires tracking in different
variables which part is applicable already.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250101070249.2c1a1934bd73.I4e90fd503504e37f9eac5bdae62e3f07e7071275@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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In order to save power, it can be desirable to change the
RX operating mode using OMI to reduce the bandwidth. As the
handshake must be done in the HTC+ field, it cannot be done
by mac80211 directly, so expose functions to the driver to
request and finalize the necessary updates.

Note that RX OMI really only changes what the peer (AP) will
transmit to us, but in order to use it to actually save some
power (by reducing the listen bandwidth) we also update rate
scaling and then the channel context's mindef accordingly.

The updates are split into two in order to sequence them
correctly, when reducing bandwidth first reduce the rate
scaling and thus TX, then send OMI, then reduce the listen
bandwidth (chandef); when increasing bandwidth this is the
other way around. This also requires tracking in different
variables which part is applicable already.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250101070249.2c1a1934bd73.I4e90fd503504e37f9eac5bdae62e3f07e7071275@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: get tx power per link</title>
<updated>2024-12-04T15:17:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rameshkumar Sundaram</name>
<email>quic_ramess@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-25T08:32:17+00:00</published>
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ML interfaces can have multiple affiliated links to it and
hence there is a need to report tx power of specified link
rather deflink.

Add changes to report tx power of requested link from mac80211,
also pass link id as an argument in get_tx_power op so that supported
drivers can use it to report link's tx power.

Co-developed-by: Aaradhana Sahu &lt;quic_aarasahu@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaradhana Sahu &lt;quic_aarasahu@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram &lt;quic_ramess@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241125083217.216095-3-quic_ramess@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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ML interfaces can have multiple affiliated links to it and
hence there is a need to report tx power of specified link
rather deflink.

Add changes to report tx power of requested link from mac80211,
also pass link id as an argument in get_tx_power op so that supported
drivers can use it to report link's tx power.

Co-developed-by: Aaradhana Sahu &lt;quic_aarasahu@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaradhana Sahu &lt;quic_aarasahu@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram &lt;quic_ramess@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241125083217.216095-3-quic_ramess@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: call rate_control_rate_update() for link STA</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T14:43:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-07T12:00:54+00:00</published>
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In order to update the right link information, call the update
rate_control_rate_update() with the right link_sta, and then
pass that through to the driver's sta_rc_update() method. The
software rate control still doesn't support it, but that'll be
skipped by not having a rate control ref.

Since it now operates on a link sta, rename the driver method.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241007144851.5851b6b5fd41.Ibdf50d96afa4b761dd9b9dfd54a1147e77a75329@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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In order to update the right link information, call the update
rate_control_rate_update() with the right link_sta, and then
pass that through to the driver's sta_rc_update() method. The
software rate control still doesn't support it, but that'll be
skipped by not having a rate control ref.

Since it now operates on a link sta, rename the driver method.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241007144851.5851b6b5fd41.Ibdf50d96afa4b761dd9b9dfd54a1147e77a75329@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: Add support to indicate that a new interface is to be added</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T14:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilan Peer</name>
<email>ilan.peer@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-07T12:00:45+00:00</published>
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Add support to indicate to the driver that an interface is about to be
added so that the driver could prepare its resources early if it needs
so.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer &lt;ilan.peer@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241007144851.e0e8563e1c30.Ifccc96a46a347eb15752caefc9f4eff31f75ed47@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Add support to indicate to the driver that an interface is about to be
added so that the driver could prepare its resources early if it needs
so.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer &lt;ilan.peer@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241007144851.e0e8563e1c30.Ifccc96a46a347eb15752caefc9f4eff31f75ed47@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: inform the low level if drv_stop() is a suspend</title>
<updated>2024-06-26T08:25:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emmanuel Grumbach</name>
<email>emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-18T16:25:56+00:00</published>
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This will allow the low level driver to take different actions for
different flows.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240618192529.739036208b6e.Ie18a2fe8e02bf2717549d39420b350cfdaf3d317@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This will allow the low level driver to take different actions for
different flows.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240618192529.739036208b6e.Ie18a2fe8e02bf2717549d39420b350cfdaf3d317@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str()</title>
<updated>2024-05-23T00:14:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-16T17:34:54+00:00</published>
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With the rework of how the __string() handles dynamic strings where it
saves off the source string in field in the helper structure[1], the
assignment of that value to the trace event field is stored in the helper
value and does not need to be passed in again.

This means that with:

  __string(field, mystring)

Which use to be assigned with __assign_str(field, mystring), no longer
needs the second parameter and it is unused. With this, __assign_str()
will now only get a single parameter.

There's over 700 users of __assign_str() and because coccinelle does not
handle the TRACE_EVENT() macro I ended up using the following sed script:

  git grep -l __assign_str | while read a ; do
      sed -e 's/\(__assign_str([^,]*[^ ,]\) *,[^;]*/\1)/' $a &gt; /tmp/test-file;
      mv /tmp/test-file $a;
  done

I then searched for __assign_str() that did not end with ';' as those
were multi line assignments that the sed script above would fail to catch.

Note, the same updates will need to be done for:

  __assign_str_len()
  __assign_rel_str()
  __assign_rel_str_len()

I tested this with both an allmodconfig and an allyesconfig (build only for both).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240222211442.634192653@goodmis.org/

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240516133454.681ba6a0@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt; for the amdgpu parts.
Acked-by: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt; #for
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt; # for thermal
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;	# xfs
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
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With the rework of how the __string() handles dynamic strings where it
saves off the source string in field in the helper structure[1], the
assignment of that value to the trace event field is stored in the helper
value and does not need to be passed in again.

This means that with:

  __string(field, mystring)

Which use to be assigned with __assign_str(field, mystring), no longer
needs the second parameter and it is unused. With this, __assign_str()
will now only get a single parameter.

There's over 700 users of __assign_str() and because coccinelle does not
handle the TRACE_EVENT() macro I ended up using the following sed script:

  git grep -l __assign_str | while read a ; do
      sed -e 's/\(__assign_str([^,]*[^ ,]\) *,[^;]*/\1)/' $a &gt; /tmp/test-file;
      mv /tmp/test-file $a;
  done

I then searched for __assign_str() that did not end with ';' as those
were multi line assignments that the sed script above would fail to catch.

Note, the same updates will need to be done for:

  __assign_str_len()
  __assign_rel_str()
  __assign_rel_str_len()

I tested this with both an allmodconfig and an allyesconfig (build only for both).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240222211442.634192653@goodmis.org/

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240516133454.681ba6a0@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt; for the amdgpu parts.
Acked-by: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt; #for
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt; # for thermal
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;	# xfs
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: pass link_id to channel switch ops</title>
<updated>2024-03-04T13:33:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T08:55:43+00:00</published>
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For CSA to work correctly in multi-link scenarios, pass
the link_id to the relevant callbacks.

While at it, unify/deduplicate the tracing for them.

Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240228095718.b7726635c054.I0be5d00af4acb48cfbd23a9dbf067f9aeb66469d@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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For CSA to work correctly in multi-link scenarios, pass
the link_id to the relevant callbacks.

While at it, unify/deduplicate the tracing for them.

Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit &lt;miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach &lt;emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240228095718.b7726635c054.I0be5d00af4acb48cfbd23a9dbf067f9aeb66469d@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wifi: mac80211: support wider bandwidth OFDMA config</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T12:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-29T18:34:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=761748f001800d925c2ee8b04407e7aee12c3ffb'/>
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EHT requires that stations are able to participate in
wider bandwidth OFDMA, i.e. parse downlink OFDMA and
uplink OFDMA triggers when they're not capable of (or
not connected at) the (wider) bandwidth that the AP
is using. This requires hardware configuration, since
the entity responsible for parsing (possibly hardware)
needs to know the AP bandwidth.

To support this, change the channel request to have
the AP's bandwidth for clients, and track that in the
channel context in mac80211. This means that the same
chandef might need to be split up into two different
contexts, if the APs are different. Interfaces other
than client are not participating in OFDMA the same
way, so they don't request any AP setting.

Note that this doesn't introduce any API to split a
channel context, so that there are cases where this
might lead to a disconnect, e.g. if there are two
client interfaces using the same channel context, e.g.
both 160 MHz connected to different 320 MHz APs, and
one of the APs switches to 160 MHz.

Note also there are possible cases where this can be
optimised, e.g. when using the upper or lower 160 Mhz,
but I haven't been able to really fully understand the
spec and/or hardware limitations.

If, for some reason, there are no hardware limits on
this because the OFDMA (downlink/trigger) parsing is
done in firmware and can take the transmitter into
account, then drivers can set the new flag
IEEE80211_VIF_IGNORE_OFDMA_WIDER_BW on interfaces to
not have them request any AP bandwidth in the channel
context and ignore this issue entirely. The bss_conf
still contains the AP configuration (if any, i.e. EHT)
in the chanreq.

Link: https://msgid.link/20240129194108.d3d5b35dd783.I939d04674f4ff06f39934b1591c8d36a30ce74c2@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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EHT requires that stations are able to participate in
wider bandwidth OFDMA, i.e. parse downlink OFDMA and
uplink OFDMA triggers when they're not capable of (or
not connected at) the (wider) bandwidth that the AP
is using. This requires hardware configuration, since
the entity responsible for parsing (possibly hardware)
needs to know the AP bandwidth.

To support this, change the channel request to have
the AP's bandwidth for clients, and track that in the
channel context in mac80211. This means that the same
chandef might need to be split up into two different
contexts, if the APs are different. Interfaces other
than client are not participating in OFDMA the same
way, so they don't request any AP setting.

Note that this doesn't introduce any API to split a
channel context, so that there are cases where this
might lead to a disconnect, e.g. if there are two
client interfaces using the same channel context, e.g.
both 160 MHz connected to different 320 MHz APs, and
one of the APs switches to 160 MHz.

Note also there are possible cases where this can be
optimised, e.g. when using the upper or lower 160 Mhz,
but I haven't been able to really fully understand the
spec and/or hardware limitations.

If, for some reason, there are no hardware limits on
this because the OFDMA (downlink/trigger) parsing is
done in firmware and can take the transmitter into
account, then drivers can set the new flag
IEEE80211_VIF_IGNORE_OFDMA_WIDER_BW on interfaces to
not have them request any AP bandwidth in the channel
context and ignore this issue entirely. The bss_conf
still contains the AP configuration (if any, i.e. EHT)
in the chanreq.

Link: https://msgid.link/20240129194108.d3d5b35dd783.I939d04674f4ff06f39934b1591c8d36a30ce74c2@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>wifi: mac80211: introduce 'channel request'</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T12:07:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-29T18:34:40+00:00</published>
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For channel contexts, mac80211 currently uses the cfg80211
chandef struct (control channel, center freq(s), width) to
define towards drivers and internally how these behave. In
fact, there are _two_ such structs used, where the min_def
can reduce bandwidth according to the stations connected.

Unfortunately,  with EHT this is longer be sufficient,  at
least not for all hardware.  EHT requires that non-AP STAs
that are connected to an AP with a lower bandwidth than it
(the AP) advertises (e.g. 160 MHz STA connected to 320 MHz
AP) still be able to receive downlink OFDMA and respond to
trigger frames for uplink OFDMA  that specify the position
and bandwidth  for the non-AP STA  relative to the channel
the AP is using.  Therefore, they need to be aware of this,
and at least for some hardware (e.g. Intel) this awareness
is in the hardware. As a result, use of the "same" channel
may need to be split over  two channel contexts where they
differ by the AP being used.

As a first step,  introduce a concept of a channel request
('chanreq') for each interface,  to control the context it
requests.   This step does nothing but reorganise the code,
so that later the AP's chandef can be added to the request
in order to handle the EHT case described above.

Link: https://msgid.link/20240129194108.2e88e48bd2e9.I4256183debe975c5ed71621611206fdbb69ba330@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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For channel contexts, mac80211 currently uses the cfg80211
chandef struct (control channel, center freq(s), width) to
define towards drivers and internally how these behave. In
fact, there are _two_ such structs used, where the min_def
can reduce bandwidth according to the stations connected.

Unfortunately,  with EHT this is longer be sufficient,  at
least not for all hardware.  EHT requires that non-AP STAs
that are connected to an AP with a lower bandwidth than it
(the AP) advertises (e.g. 160 MHz STA connected to 320 MHz
AP) still be able to receive downlink OFDMA and respond to
trigger frames for uplink OFDMA  that specify the position
and bandwidth  for the non-AP STA  relative to the channel
the AP is using.  Therefore, they need to be aware of this,
and at least for some hardware (e.g. Intel) this awareness
is in the hardware. As a result, use of the "same" channel
may need to be split over  two channel contexts where they
differ by the AP being used.

As a first step,  introduce a concept of a channel request
('chanreq') for each interface,  to control the context it
requests.   This step does nothing but reorganise the code,
so that later the AP's chandef can be added to the request
in order to handle the EHT case described above.

Link: https://msgid.link/20240129194108.2e88e48bd2e9.I4256183debe975c5ed71621611206fdbb69ba330@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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