From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:21:17 +0530 Subject: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Fix mesh related filtering issue for older chips In-Reply-To: <1347633965-20218-1-git-send-email-mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> References: <1347633965-20218-1-git-send-email-mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Message-ID: <50534465.3080205@qca.qualcomm.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Friday 14 September 2012 08:16 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote: > From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan > > We need to have the promiscus mode enabled for older > chipset(ie rule out many frames being filtered in the > hardware itself)if 'FIF_OTHER_BSS' flag is set, when we > start the mesh mode. Fix this by enabling promiscus > mode for all chipsets whose macversion <= AR9160 > chipsets. This should fix > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45591 > > Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan > --- > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c > index 4480c0c..76db0b3 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c > @@ -424,8 +424,8 @@ u32 ath_calcrxfilter(struct ath_softc *sc) > rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_COMP_BAR; > > if (sc->nvifs > 1 || (sc->rx.rxfilter & FIF_OTHER_BSS)) { > - /* The following may also be needed for other older chips */ > - if (sc->sc_ah->hw_version.macVersion == AR_SREV_VERSION_9160) > + /* This is needed for older chips, especially for mesh mode */ > + if (sc->sc_ah->hw_version.macVersion <= AR_SREV_VERSION_9160) > rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PROM; > rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL; > } > John, kindly drop this. Had resent the v2 with proper author name (Thomas) who suggested the change. -- thanks, shafi