mac80211: add a flag to indicate CCK support for HT clients

commit 2dfca312a91631311c1cf7c090246cc8103de038 upstream.

brcm80211 cannot handle sending frames with CCK rates as part of an
A-MPDU session. Other drivers may have issues too. Set the flag in all
drivers that have been tested with CCK rates.

This fixes a reported brcmsmac regression introduced in
commit ef47a5e4f1
"mac80211/minstrel_ht: fix cck rate sampling"

Reported-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Felix Fietkau 2013-08-20 19:43:54 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 543037a302
commit 9ddc34b565
5 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -767,7 +767,8 @@ void ath9k_set_hw_capab(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK |
IEEE80211_HW_SPECTRUM_MGMT |
IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS |
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_RC_TABLE;
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_RC_TABLE |
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_HT_CCK_RATES;
if (sc->sc_ah->caps.hw_caps & ATH9K_HW_CAP_HT)
hw->flags |= IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION;

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@ -1857,7 +1857,8 @@ void *carl9170_alloc(size_t priv_size)
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS |
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK |
IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_BEFORE_ASSOC |
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM;
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM |
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_HT_CCK_RATES;
if (!modparam_noht) {
/*

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@ -5912,7 +5912,8 @@ static int rt2800_probe_hw_mode(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS |
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK |
IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION |
IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS;
IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS |
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_HT_CCK_RATES;
/*
* Don't set IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING for USB devices

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@ -1484,6 +1484,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_RC_TABLE = 1<<24,
IEEE80211_HW_P2P_DEV_ADDR_FOR_INTF = 1<<25,
IEEE80211_HW_TIMING_BEACON_ONLY = 1<<26,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_HT_CCK_RATES = 1<<27,
};
/**

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@ -828,6 +828,9 @@ minstrel_ht_update_cck(struct minstrel_priv *mp, struct minstrel_ht_sta *mi,
if (sband->band != IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ)
return;
if (!(mp->hw->flags & IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_HT_CCK_RATES))
return;
mi->cck_supported = 0;
mi->cck_supported_short = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {