[iwinfo PATCH v2] devices: add support for declaring compatible matched devices

[Christian Marangi]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 09:58:19PM +0100, Andre Heider wrote:
> On 09/01/2023 21:44, Andre Heider wrote:
> > On 09/01/2023 20:49, Christian Marangi wrote:
> > > From: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io>
> > > 
> > > Some device have embedded wifi card that are not connected with usb or
> > > internall with pci. Such device have fake device_id and only the
> > > vendor_id actually reflect something real but internally they don't have
> > > any id and are just matched by the node compatible binding in DT.
> > > 
> > > We currently match this with a big if-else to match the single devices
> > > but this can be improved and be matched directly in devices.txt
> > > 
> > > Rework this so that we can drop the big if-else and move the matching
> > > to devices.txt
> > > 
> > > When a device is matched using compatible in iwinfo the hardware will be
> > > flagged as embedded and won't print empty ids.
> > > 
> > > Update devices.txt by migrating all the compatible matching device from
> > > fake id to compatible matching.
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> # ipq4019
> > > Co-developed-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io>
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>
> > > Tested-by: Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> # ipq8074
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com>
> 
> Forgot to mention, but stating the obvious:
> This changes the ABI (adding new members to public structs), so a
> recompilation of all users is sufficient to avoid problems. Hence, please
> bump IWINFO_ABI_VERSION once this is merged and the package gets updated.
>

Need jow help for this... There is an intention to not change ABI
version if not really needed...

> While on that topic, the few remaining patches from PR#11280 are in the same
> boat. Can we get those merged too, pretty please?
> 

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