Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Channel list update before hardware scan

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org> writes:

> The channel scan list must be updated before triggering a hardware scan
> so that firmware takes into account the regulatory info for each single
> channel such as active/passive config, power, DFS, etc... Without this
> the firmware uses its own internal default channel configuration, which
> is not aligned with mac80211 regulatory rules, and misses several
> channels (e.g. 144).
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 2f3bef4b247e ("wcn36xx: Add hardware scan offload support")
> Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>

[...]

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
> @@ -928,6 +928,103 @@ int wcn36xx_smd_stop_hw_scan(struct wcn36xx *wcn)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static void wcn36xx_channel_set_max_power(struct wcn36xx_hal_channel_param *p, u32 max)
> +{
> +	u32 min = WCN36XX_HAL_DEFAULT_MIN_POWER;
> +
> +	if (min > max)
> +		min = max;
> +
> +	p->reg_info_1 &= 0xffff0000;
> +	p->reg_info_1 |= (min & 0xff) + ((max & 0xff) << 8);
> +}
> +
> +static void wcn36xx_channel_set_reg_power(struct wcn36xx_hal_channel_param *p, u32 power)
> +{
> +	p->reg_info_1 &= 0xff00ffff;
> +	p->reg_info_1 |= (power & 0xff) << 16;
> +}
> +
> +static void wcn36xx_channel_set_class_id(struct wcn36xx_hal_channel_param *p, u32 id)
> +{
> +	p->reg_info_1 &= 0x00ffffff;
> +	p->reg_info_1 |= (id & 0xff) << 24;
> +}

Please use u32_replace_bits() family of functions with proper defines
for bitfields in hal.h. I suspect then you don't then even need these
helper functions and makes the code readable.

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