From: Hauke Mehrtens Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 16:06:05 +0000 (+0100) Subject: mac80211: Allow IBSS mode and different beacon intervals X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9363914a393ac732cac6798d687cba167a99bad;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fthess.git mac80211: Allow IBSS mode and different beacon intervals ath10k-ct supports the combination to select IBSS (ADHOC) mode and different beacon intervals together. mac80211 does not like this combination, but Ben says this is ok, so remove this check. Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens --- diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/400-allow-ibss-mixed.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/400-allow-ibss-mixed.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..52200b6ecc --- /dev/null +++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/400-allow-ibss-mixed.patch @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +ath10k-ct starting with version 5.2 allows the combination of +NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC and beacon_int_min_gcd in ath10k_10x_ct_if_comb +which triggers this warning. Ben told me that this is not a big problem +and we should ignore this. + +--- a/net/wireless/core.c ++++ b/net/wireless/core.c +@@ -613,21 +613,6 @@ static int wiphy_verify_combinations(str + c->limits[j].max > 1)) + return -EINVAL; + +- /* +- * This isn't well-defined right now. If you have an +- * IBSS interface, then its beacon interval may change +- * by joining other networks, and nothing prevents it +- * from doing that. +- * So technically we probably shouldn't even allow AP +- * and IBSS in the same interface, but it seems that +- * some drivers support that, possibly only with fixed +- * beacon intervals for IBSS. +- */ +- if (WARN_ON(types & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) && +- c->beacon_int_min_gcd)) { +- return -EINVAL; +- } +- + cnt += c->limits[j].max; + /* + * Don't advertise an unsupported type