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Re: [PATCH 3.12] mac80211: disable WMM with invalid parameters

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On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 09:44 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Some APs (notably a Sitecom WL-153 v1 with firmware 1.45) are sending
> invalid WMM parameters setting AIFSN, ECWmin and ECWmax to zero. The
> spec mandates that the value of AIFSN is at least 2, and some cards
> (e.g. Intel with the iwldvm driver) can't transmit when the invalid
> QoS parameters are actually uploaded to the firmware.
> 
> Since there's little chance of being able to guess the values that
> the AP actually meant, disable WMM if such an invalid case is found.
> Since ECWmin/ECWmax are allowed to be zero, only verify AIFSN >= 2
> and ECWmin <= ECWmax.

I've applied a fixed version.

johannes

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