Re: [PATCH v4 ath-current 0/2] wifi: ath11k: add usecase firmware handling based on device compatible

On 1/28/2026 12:01 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 27/01/2026 18:31, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> On 1/21/2026 1:50 AM, Miaoqing Pan wrote:
>>> The 'firmware-name' property was introduced to allow end-users and
>>> integrators to select use-case-specific firmware for the WCN6855.
>>> But for M.2 WLAN chips, there is no suitable DTS node to specify
>>> the 'firmware-name' property. In addition, assigning firmware for
>>> the M.2 PCIe interface causes chips that do not use use-case-specific
>>> firmware to fail. Therefore, abandoning the approach of specifying
>>> firmware in DTS. As an alternative, propose a static lookup table
>>> mapping device compatible to firmware names.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> v2:
>>> - Drops `firmware-name` from completely.
>>> - Updates the commit message to clearly state that the property is
>>>   obsolete and the change is ABI-breaking but safe for upstream.
>>> v3:
>>>  - Deprecate 'firmware-name' property instead of obsolete.
>>>  - Keep the ABI backwards compatible.
>>> v4:
>>>  - Use of_machine_is_compatible() to simplify the code.
>>>  - Add back Acked-by tag. 
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Miaoqing Pan (2):
>>>   wifi: ath11k: add usecase firmware handling based on device compatible
>>>   dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k-pci: deprecate 'firmware-name'
>>>     property
>>>
>>>  .../net/wireless/qcom,ath11k-pci.yaml         |  1 +
>>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c        | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.h        |  4 +++
>>>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
>>>
>>>
>>> base-commit: d8e1f4a193101a72235416f189b01131a57e26e9
>>
>> Krzysztof,
>> Since you previously NAKed this series, can you confirm that your review
>> comments have been addressed?
> 
> 
> Binding looks fine, but I did not check the driver.

Thanks Krzysztof for your re-review.

Although tagged for ath-current, we are too far in the v6.19 release cycle for
this, so I'll be taking it through ath-next for the v7.0 merge window.

/jeff