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    mac80211: prepare sta handling for MLO support · 046d2e7c
    Sriram R authored
    Currently in mac80211 each STA object is represented
    using sta_info datastructure with the associated
    STA specific information and drivers access ieee80211_sta
    part of it.
    
    With MLO (Multi Link Operation) support being added
    in 802.11be standard, though the association is logically
    with a single Multi Link capable STA, at the physical level
    communication can happen via different advertised
    links (uniquely identified by Channel, operating class,
    BSSID) and hence the need to handle multiple link
    STA parameters within a composite sta_info object
    called the MLD STA. The different link STA part of
    MLD STA are identified using the link address which can
    be same or different as the MLD STA address and unique
    link id based on the link vif.
    
    To support extension of such a model, the sta_info
    datastructure is modified to hold multiple link STA
    objects with link specific params currently within
    sta_info moved to this new structure. Similarly this is
    done for ieee80211_sta as well which will be accessed
    within mac80211 as well as by drivers, hence trivial
    driver changes are expected to support this.
    
    For current non MLO supported drivers, only one link STA
    is present and link information is accessed via 'deflink'
    member.
    
    For MLO drivers, we still need to define the APIs etc. to
    get the correct link ID and access the correct part of
    the station info.
    
    Currently in mac80211, all link STA info are accessed directly
    via deflink. These will be updated to access via link pointers
    indexed by link id with MLO support patches, with link id
    being 0 for non MLO supported cases.
    
    Except for couple of macro related changes, below spatch takes
    care of updating mac80211 and driver code to access to the
    link STA info via deflink.
    
      @ieee80211_sta@
      struct ieee80211_sta *s;
      struct sta_info *si;
      identifier var = {supp_rates, ht_cap, vht_cap, he_cap, he_6ghz_capa, eht_cap, rx_nss, bandwidth, txpwr};
      @@
    
      (
        s->
      -    var
      +    deflink.var
      |
       si->sta.
      -    var
      +    deflink.var
      )
    
      @sta_info@
      struct sta_info *si;
      identifier var = {gtk, pcpu_rx_stats, rx_stats, rx_stats_avg, status_stats, tx_stats, cur_max_bandwidth};
      @@
    
      (
        si->
      -    var
      +    deflink.var
      )
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1649086883-13246-1-git-send-email-quic_srirrama@quicinc.com
    [remove MLO-drivers notes from commit message, not clear yet; run spatch]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    046d2e7c
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