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iwl4965: workaround connection regression on passive channel
authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 May 2013 16:07:06 +0000 (18:07 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 8 May 2013 21:15:07 +0000 (17:15 -0400)
commit49c26f5dc99c41815a4ad14a03fd4ac4d19e99a3
treec664b6eec996aad1c53512fc1afe1eb4dbc97eff
parentb183a4bfc795f3e3f7d3521f81203fa8a8c51d96
iwl4965: workaround connection regression on passive channel

Jake reported that since commit 2e90d8fb2459eb9af9c5f504b1a11c540dc473d4
"mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status", he is unable to
connect to his AP, which is configured to use passive channel.

After switch to passive channel 4965 firmware drops any TX packet until
it receives beacon. Before commit 2e90d8fb we waited on channel and
retransmit packet after 200ms, that makes we receive beacon on the
meantime and association process succeed. New mac80211 behaviour cause
that any ASSOC frame fail immediately on iwl4965 and we can not
associate.

This patch restore old mac80211 behaviour for iwl4965, by removing
IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS feature. This feature will be
added again to iwl4965 driver, when different, more complex
workaround for this firmware issue, will be added to the driver.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9
Bisected-by: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c