Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: Remove old 802.11a-only channels

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 10:11 +0100, Rostyslav Khudolii wrote:
> On 10 March 2017 at 09:56, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 09:49 +0100, Rostyslav Khudolii wrote:
> > > Channels 34/38/42/46 can only be used for compatibility with
> > > old devices sold in Japan. Modern products, such as AR6003/AR6004
> > > don't support these channels.
> > > Keeping them in the upstream is error prone and requires full
> > > network stack support.
> > 
> > Seems pointless. Nothing in the network stack really cares much
> > about
> > the channel numbers, so what exactly does this improve?
> > 
> 
> Without this one, a user is able to start an AP using wpa_supplicant,
> for example, on one of these channels (34/38/42/46), without getting
> any warning/error from the cfg80211 or ath6kl - which is correct
> (since these channels match regdom rules). However, the AR6003 and
> its
> firmware (we're using v3.4.0.225) will fail and return
> "WMI_CMDERROR_EVENTID" with "INVALID_PARAM" error code.
> In my opinion, ath6kl shouldn't support anything the firmware
> doesn't.
> We should also handle WMI_CMDERROR_EVENTID properly (not just
> printing
> a message), but this is another problem, I believe.

Ah. I didn't make the connection that AR6003 was actually a product
that used this driver and thought you were using it as another peer and
then the two couldn't make a connection...

My bad.

johannes