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Jakub Kicinski 8c73e8b595 wireless-next patches for v6.10

The first "new features" pull request for v6.10 with changes both in
 stack and in drivers. The big thing in this pull request is that
 wireless subsystem is now almost free of sparse warnings. There's only
 one warning left in ath11k which was introduced in v6.9-rc1 and will
 be fixed via the wireless tree.
 
 Realtek drivers continue to improve, now we have support for RTL8922AE
 and RTL8723CS devices. ath11k also has long waited support for P2P.
 
 This time we have a small conflict in iwlwifi as we didn't consider it
 as major enough to justify merging wireless tree to wireless-next. But
 Stephen has an example merge resolution which should help with fixing
 the conflict:
 
 https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240326100945.765b8caf@canb.auug.org.au/
 
 Major changes:
 
 rtw89
 
 * RTL8922AE Wi-Fi 7 PCI device support
 
 rtw88
 
 * RTL8723CS SDIO device support
 
 iwlwifi
 
 * don't support puncturing in 5 GHz
 
 * support monitor mode on passive channels
 
 * BZ-W device support
 
 * P2P with HE/EHT support
 
 ath11k
 
 * P2P support for QCA6390, WCN6855 and QCA2066
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Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-04-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-next patches for v6.10

The first "new features" pull request for v6.10 with changes both in
stack and in drivers. The big thing in this pull request is that
wireless subsystem is now almost free of sparse warnings. There's only
one warning left in ath11k which was introduced in v6.9-rc1 and will
be fixed via the wireless tree.

Realtek drivers continue to improve, now we have support for RTL8922AE
and RTL8723CS devices. ath11k also has long waited support for P2P.

This time we have a small conflict in iwlwifi, Stephen has an example
merge resolution which should help with fixing the conflict:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240326100945.765b8caf@canb.auug.org.au/

Major changes:

rtw89
 * RTL8922AE Wi-Fi 7 PCI device support

rtw88
 * RTL8723CS SDIO device support

iwlwifi
 * don't support puncturing in 5 GHz
 * support monitor mode on passive channels
 * BZ-W device support
 * P2P with HE/EHT support

ath11k
 * P2P support for QCA6390, WCN6855 and QCA2066

* tag 'wireless-next-2024-04-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (122 commits)
  wifi: mt76: mt7915: workaround dubious x | !y warning
  wifi: mwl8k: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
  wifi: ti: Avoid a hundred -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix check in iwl_mvm_sta_fw_id_mask
  net: rfkill: gpio: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  wifi: mac80211: use kvcalloc() for codel vars
  wifi: iwlwifi: reconfigure TLC during HW restart
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't change BA sessions during restart
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: select STA mask only for active links
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set wider BW OFDMA ignore correctly
  wifi: iwlwifi: Add support for LARI_CONFIG_CHANGE_CMD cmd v9
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Declare HE/EHT capabilities support for P2P interfaces
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Remove outdated comment
  wifi: iwlwifi: add support for BZ_W
  wifi: iwlwifi: Print a specific device name.
  wifi: iwlwifi: remove wrong CRF_IDs
  wifi: iwlwifi: remove devices that never came out
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: mark EMLSR disabled in cleanup iterator
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix active link counting during recovery
  wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: assign link STA ID lookups during restart
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240403093625.CF515C433C7@smtp.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

2024-04-03 19:36:57 -07:00

ABI

Char/Misc and other driver subsystem updates for 6.9-rc1

2024-03-21 13:21:31 -07:00

accel

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accounting

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admin-guide

A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes and enhancements.

2024-03-20 09:36:46 -07:00

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