On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 10:11 +0100, Rostyslav Khudolii wrote: > On 10 March 2017 at 09:56, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 09:49 +0100, Rostyslav Khudolii wrote: > > > Channels 34/38/42/46 can only be used for compatibility with > > > old devices sold in Japan. Modern products, such as AR6003/AR6004 > > > don't support these channels. > > > Keeping them in the upstream is error prone and requires full > > > network stack support. > > > > Seems pointless. Nothing in the network stack really cares much > > about > > the channel numbers, so what exactly does this improve? > > > > Without this one, a user is able to start an AP using wpa_supplicant, > for example, on one of these channels (34/38/42/46), without getting > any warning/error from the cfg80211 or ath6kl - which is correct > (since these channels match regdom rules). However, the AR6003 and > its > firmware (we're using v3.4.0.225) will fail and return > "WMI_CMDERROR_EVENTID" with "INVALID_PARAM" error code. > In my opinion, ath6kl shouldn't support anything the firmware > doesn't. > We should also handle WMI_CMDERROR_EVENTID properly (not just > printing > a message), but this is another problem, I believe. Ah. I didn't make the connection that AR6003 was actually a product that used this driver and thought you were using it as another peer and then the two couldn't make a connection... My bad. johannes _______________________________________________ ath6kl mailing list ath6kl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath6kl