iwlwifi: mvm: support sta_statistics() even on older firmware

commit ec484d03ef0df8d34086b95710e355a259cbe1f2 upstream.

The oldest firmware supported by iwlmvm do support getting
the average beacon RSSI. Enable the sta_statistics() call
from mac80211 even on older firmware versions.

Fixes: 33cef9256342 ("iwlwifi: mvm: support beacon statistics for BSS client")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index 80a6539..f161fa5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -4189,10 +4189,6 @@ static void iwl_mvm_mac_sta_statistics(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                sinfo->filled |= BIT(NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG);
        }
 
-       if (!fw_has_capa(&mvm->fw->ucode_capa,
-                        IWL_UCODE_TLV_CAPA_RADIO_BEACON_STATS))
-               return;
-
        /* if beacon filtering isn't on mac80211 does it anyway */
        if (!(vif->driver_flags & IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER))
                return;