brcm80211: smac: resume transmit fifo upon receiving frames
authorArend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:52:51 +0000 (11:52 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 11 May 2012 12:13:56 +0000 (13:13 +0100)
commitd609909f0d6c69937057237b3eff577311d08d07
tree278a30164ba46b357c31b44971b7f5bff287e698
parenta5f948e19be44b5fda9e07c34979dee0126199cd
brcm80211: smac: resume transmit fifo upon receiving frames

commit badc4f07622f0f7093a201638f45e85765f1b5e4 upstream.

There have been reports about not being able to use access-points
on channel 12 and 13 or having connectivity issues when these channels
were part of the selected regulatory domain. Upon switching to these
channels the brcmsmac driver suspends the transmit dma fifos. This
patch resumes them upon handing over the first received beacon to
mac80211.

This patch is to be applied to the stable tree for kernel versions
3.2 and 3.3.

Tested-by: Francesco Saverio Schiavarelli <fschiava@libero.it>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c