ath9k: Fix rx filtering issue for older chips
authorThomas Wagner <Thomas.Wagner@hs-rm.de>
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:02:55 +0000 (21:32 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:54:02 +0000 (13:54 -0400)
We need to have the promiscuous mode enabled for older
chipsets so that the olderchips hardware does not
filters out some valid/necessary frames that need
to be sent to mac80211. Fix this by enabling promiscus
mode for all the chipsets whose macversion <= AR9160
chipsets. This should fix
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45591

shafi: made the fix generic by having the frame filtering
disabled for chipsets older than AR9280.

Cc: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Wagner <Thomas.Wagner@hs-rm.de>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c

index 4480c0c..83d16e7 100644 (file)
@@ -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 */
+               if (sc->sc_ah->hw_version.macVersion <= AR_SREV_VERSION_9160)
                        rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PROM;
                rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL;
        }