Re: AP mode my ath9k broke between 3.3 and 3.4-rc2

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>]

On 2012-04-24 2:54 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:00:11PM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>> Andrew Chant wrote:
>> > 3.4-rc4 doesn't work either.
>> > If I revert the patch on 3.4-rc4, the Intel card is able to associate again.
>> > -Andrew
>> > 
>> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Andrew Chant <andrew.chant@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>  my Atheros AR9300 PCIe card (168c:0030) stopped working as an AP on
>> >> the 5GHz band between 3.3 and 3.4-rc2.
>> >> After 14 git bisects, I believe I have narrowed it down to the following patch:
>> >>
>> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=293702a3fb75832613e2af097bdc3ac8ef775b33
>> >>
>> >> mac80211: use common radiotap code for cooked monitors
>> 
>> Same problem here with ar9285 / 2.4GHz / eap-tls / 802.11n / hostapd
>> 0.7.3 / compat-wireless-3.4-rc3-1.tar.bz2
>> 
>> Removing "mac80211: use common radiotap code for cooked monitors" solves
>> the problem here, too.
>> 
>> Using rt2860 as AP seems not to be a problem.
> 
> Sounds like we may need to revert it upstream.  Johannes, any comments?
That's a known bug, which I submitted a fix for. When looking at the
3.4-rc4 log, I don't see my fix in there. It was submitted as
"[PATCH] mac80211: fix truncated packets in cooked monitor rx"

- Felix