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wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2018-10-07
wireless-drivers-next patches for 4.20 Second set of patches for 4.20. Heavy refactoring on mt76 continues and the usual drivers in active development (iwlwifi, qtnfmac, ath10k) getting new features. And as always, fixes and cleanup all over. Major changes: mt76 * more major refactoring to make it easier add new hardware support * more work on mt76x0e support * support for getting firmware version via ethtool * add mt7650 PCI ID iwlwifi * HE radiotap cleanup and improvements * reorder channel optimization for scans * bump the FW API version qtnfmac * fixes for 'iw' output: rates for enabled SGI, 'dump station' * expose more scan features to host: scan flush and dwell time * inform cfg80211 when OBSS is not supported by firmware wlcore * add support for optional wakeirq ath10k * retrieve MAC address from system firmware if provided * support extended board data download for dual-band QCA9984 * extended per sta tx statistics support via debugfs * average ack rssi support for data frames * speed up QCA6174 and QCA9377 firmware download using diag Copy Engine * HTT High Latency mode support needed by SDIO and USB support * get STA power save state via debugfs ath9k * add reset functionality for airtime station debugfs file
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wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2018-10-0208b0109e · ·
wireless-drivers-next patches for 4.20 First set of new features for 4.20. mt76 driver is going through major refactoring and that's why there are so many mt76 patches. iwlwifi is also under heavy development and smaller changes to other drivers. Also wireless-drivers was merged to fix a conflict between the two trees. Major changes: ath10k * limit available channels via DT ieee80211-freq-limit wil6210 * add 802.11r Fast Roaming support for AP and station modes * add support for channel 4 iwlwifi * new FW API handling * some improvements in the PCI recovery mechanism * enable a new scanning feature; * continued work on HE (mostly radiotap) * TKIP implementation in new devices * work continues for new 22560 hardware mt76 * add support for Alfa AWUS036ACM * lots of refactoring to make it easier to add new hardware support * prepare for adding mt76x0e (pci-e variant) support * add CONFIG_MT76x0E kconfig symbol brcmfmac * add support CYW89342 mini-PCIe device * add 4-way handshake offload detection for FT-802.1X * enable NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_CQM_RSSI_LIST * fix for proper support of 160MHz bandwidth rtl8xxxu * add rtl8188ctv support