The channel switch announcement code has some major locking problems which can cause a deadlock in worst case. A series of fixes has been proposed, but these are non-trivial and need to be tested first. Therefore disable CSA completely for 3.13. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This is based on mac80211.git and should go into 3.13 only --- net/wireless/core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index aff959e..507e71f 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -451,6 +451,12 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy) int i; u16 ifmodes = wiphy->interface_modes; + /* + * There are major locking problems in nl80211/mac80211 for CSA, + * disable for all drivers until this has been reworked. + */ + wiphy->flags &= ~WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_CHANNEL_SWITCH; + #ifdef CONFIG_PM if (WARN_ON(wiphy->wowlan && (wiphy->wowlan->flags & WIPHY_WOWLAN_GTK_REKEY_FAILURE) && -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
