> Le 8 oct. 2020 à 11:11, Thibaut <ha...@slashdirt.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 7 Oct 2020, at 22:41, Alexander 'lynxis' Couzens <lyn...@fe80.eu> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:09:26 +0200
>> Thibaut <ha...@slashdirt.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ping?
>> 
>> LGTM.
>> 
>> What's in the "$wdata/data_0" file? Is it the BDF?
> 
> My understanding is (disclaimer: I don’t own any hardware that exposes these 
> new files) that on old style devices, the calibration (and BDF where 
> applicable, which means it could be dynamically loaded as well) data of all 
> radios was packed into a single payload, which got exposed as the “wlan_data” 
> sysfs file. Userspace then had to apply offsets to access data pertaining to 
> each radio.
> 
> New style simply separates each radio into its own payload, so data_0 is 
> calib (+BDF where applicable) for one of the radios and so on, which makes it 
> easier to process (probably for RouterOS as well, hence the change ;)
> 
> There are some devices out there which have been shipped with both styles 
> (the hap-ac2 is one of them), hence the patch ensure that 1) previous 
> behavior is unchanged and 2) it’s “easy” to accommodate both styles in 
> userspace (as suggested in the commit log).

CC’ing Robert Marko who wants to add his Tested-by.

Patch at 
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/patch/20200824103840.38920-1-ha...@slashdirt.org/

Cheers
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