wifi: ath12k: add keep backward compatibility of PHY mode to avoid firmware crash
In a special WCN7855 firmware release the EHT (IEEE 802.11be) support has been disabled for size reduction. Currently ath12k always enables EHT PHY mode during vdev start but with the special firmware that will cause a firmware crash during vdev start in firmware initialisation. This is because the firmware will use the EHT mode to allocate resources but as the EHT mode is not available in the firmware, there's an internal conflict and the firmware will crash. To fix the crash check the WMI_TLV_SERVICE_11BE flag to see if the firmware supports EHT. If EHT is not supported downgrade the PHY mode to HE (IEEE 802.11ax). This does not impact QCN9274, because WMI_SERVICE_11BE is always enabled for QCN9274, then eht_cap->has_eht will always set for it, and the logic of this patch will not take effect and the PHY mode will not down grade for it. Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0-03427-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.15378.4 Signed-off-by:Wen Gong <quic_wgong@quicinc.com> Acked-by:
Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by:
Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230913105757.17744-1-quic_wgong@quicinc.com
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