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| author | Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> | 2012-12-22 04:35:24 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2013-01-02 20:38:25 +0100 |
| commit | 6c653f66772c39c5e25db715bbd4730596fccd9e (patch) | |
| tree | a087fa5ce595f4996d765b364043f77d21883a9a /drivers | |
| parent | rtlwifi: fix incorrect use of usb_alloc_coherent with usb_control_msg (diff) | |
| download | linux-6c653f66772c39c5e25db715bbd4730596fccd9e.tar.xz linux-6c653f66772c39c5e25db715bbd4730596fccd9e.zip | |
carl9170: fix -EINVAL bailout during init with !CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH
Sean reported that as of 3.7, his AR9170 device no longer works
because the driver fails during initialization. He noted this
is due to:
"In carl9170/fw.c, ar->hw->wiphy is tagged with
NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT support if the firmware has Content
after Beacon Queuing. This is both in interface_modes and the
only iface_combinations entry.
If CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set, ieee80211_register_hw
removes NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT from interface_modes, but
not iface_combinations.
wiphy_register then checks to see if every interface type in
every interface combination is in interface_modes.
NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT was removed, so you get a WARN_ON
warning and it returns -EINVAL, giving up."
Unfortunately, the iface_combination (types) feature bitmap
in ieee80211_iface_limit is part of a const member in the
ieee80211_iface_combination struct. Hence, the MESH_POINT
feature flag can't be masked by wiphy_register in the
same way as interface_modes in ieee80211_register_hw.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sean Patrick Santos <quantheory@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Sean Patrick Santos <quantheory@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c index aaebecd19e59..63fd9af3fd39 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c @@ -336,8 +336,12 @@ static int carl9170_fw(struct ar9170 *ar, const __u8 *data, size_t len) if (SUPP(CARL9170FW_WLANTX_CAB)) { if_comb_types |= BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) | - BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO); + +#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH + if_comb_types |= + BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT); +#endif /* CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH */ } } |