Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2019-05-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next

Kalle Valo says:

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wireless-drivers-next patch

Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2019-05-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next

Kalle Valo says:

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wireless-drivers-next patches for 5.2

Most likely the last patchset of new feature for 5.2, and this time we
have quite a lot of new features. Most obvious being rtw88 from
Realtek which supports RTL8822BE and RTL8822CE 802.11ac devices. We
have also new hardware support for existing drivers and improvements.

There's one conflict in iwlwifi, my example conflict resolution below.

Major changes:

iwlwifi

* bump the 20000-series FW API version

* work on new hardware continues

* RTT confidence indication support for Fine Timing Measurement (FTM)

* an improvement in HE (802.11ax) rate-scaling

* add command version parsing from the fimware TLVs

* add support for a new WoWLAN patterns firmware API

rsi

* add support for rs9116

mwifiex

* add support for SD8987

brcmfmac

* add quirk for ACEPC T8 and T11 mini PCs

rt2x00

* add RT3883 support

qtnfmac

* fix debugfs interface to support multiple cards

rtw88

* new driver

mt76

* share more code across drivers

* add support for MT7615 chipset

* rework DMA API

* tx/rx performance optimizations

* use NAPI for tx cleanup on mt76x02

* AP mode support for USB devices

* USB stability fixes

* tx power handling fixes for 76x2

* endian fixes

Conflicts:

There's a trivial conflict in
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/file.h, just leave
IWL_UCODE_TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION to the file. 'git diff' output should be
just empty:

diff --cc drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/file.h
index cd622af90077,b0671e16e1ce..000000000000
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/file.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/file.h
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver

This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
functionalities. The

rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver

This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
functionalities. The firmware for both can be found at linux-firmware.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
For RTL8822BE: rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin
For RTL8822CE: rtw88/rtw8822c_fw.bin

And for now, only PCI buses (RTL8xxxE) are supported. We will add support
for USB and SDIO in the future. The bus interface abstraction can be seen
in this driver such as hci.h. Most of the hardware setting are the same
except for some TRX path or probing setup should be separated.

Supported:

* Basic STA/AP/ADHOC mode, and TDLS (STA is well tested)

Missing feature:

* WOW/PNO
* USB & SDIO bus (such as RTL8xxxU/RTL8xxxS)
* BT coexistence (8822B/8822C are combo ICs)
* Multiple interfaces (for now single STA is better supported)
* Dynamic hardware calibrations (to improve/stabilize performance)

Potential problems:

* static calibration spends too much time, and it is painful for
driver to leave IDLE state. And slows down associate process.
But reload function are under development, will be added soon!
* TRX statictics misleading, as we are not reporting status correctly,
or say, not reporting for "every" packet.

The next patch set should have BT coexistence code since RTL8822B/C are
combo ICs, and the driver for BT can be found after Linux Kernel v4.20.
So it is better to add it first to make WiFi + BT work concurrently.

Although now rtw88 is simple but we are developing more features for it.
Even we want to add support for more chips such as RTL8821C/RTL8814B.

Finally, rtw88 has many authors, listed alphabetically:

Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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