wifi: rtw89: set TX power without precondition during setting channel
The key condition to check in wrapper of setting TX power is whether entity
is active or not. Before entity is active, we restrict TX power from being
set by outside callers, e.g. SAR/regulatory.
We mark entity as inactive when powering off MAC. Then, we will mark it as
active when we initialize HW channel stuffs after MAC power on. Although we
can get an active entity after leaving idle phase, TX power doesn't be set
well for default channel until stack set target channel for connection. It
causes that RF things cannot use better TX power during this interval.
Below are some cases which may encounter this or a similar situation.
* hw scan process before connection
As described above.
* right after restart hardware process (SER L2)
HW stuffs of target channel is initialized after mac80211 restart
hardware, but we unexpectedly need to wait one more command to set
channel again or to set TX power.
To fix it and improve RF behavior in that interval, during setting channel,
we don't need to check entity state before setting TX power, which actually
is used to restrict outside callers. It means we call chip ops directly to
replace the wrapper call. Then, TX power can be initialized as long as we
initialize/setup HW stuffs on one channel.
Besides, all chips should configure ops of setting TX power, so we remove
trivial check on pointer.
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531060713.57203-4-pkshih@realtek.com