[RFT] mac80211 7.2 update

[Felix Fietkau]

On 24.08.26 04:59, Rosen Penev wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 6:24 AM Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a mac80211 backports update to v7.2 in my staging tree at
>> https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/staging/nbd
>>
>> If you can, please test it on non-mt76 devices (especially
>> ath11k/ath12k), and let me know if it works for you.
>> I'd like to push this soon.
> I thought of another problem. ath9k upstream switched to using #ifdef
> CONFIG_ATH9K_AHB for gpio, which can never be true as the ath9k config
> does not define it. Maybe IS_REACHABLE is needed. Not sure.
Unless I'm missing something, it seems to me that this will only become 
a problem when we upgrade the kernel to 7.2, since the #ifdef lives 
inside the gpio driver.

I've fixed up the rt2800 patches. Please let me know if there are any 
remaining issues.

- Felix