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Re: ath10k and min_gcd + adhoc issues in 4.20 kernel

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Hello,

Any comments on this below?

Thanks,
Ben

On 1/15/19 3:29 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
I just updated to 4.20 and ported forward my ath10k patches.  Now the driver
will not register with mac80211 because this warning hits in net/wireless/core.c:

             /*
              * 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;
             }


It looks like this was triggered by:

Commit 0c317a02ca982ca093e71bf07cb562265ba40032
Author: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Oct 12 18:26:51 2016 +0530

     cfg80211: support virtual interfaces with different beacon intervals

and

commit 8ebee73b574ad3dd1f14d461f65ceaffbd637650
Author: Anilkumar Kolli <akolli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Mar 28 12:19:40 2018 +0300

     ath10k: advertize beacon_int_min_gcd


To be honest, I don't see why that check for beacon_int_min_gcd is in the registration
logic.  Having it be '1' means that the driver/nic/firmware is flexible on pretty much
any combination of beacon interval, so why should that trigger the WARN_ON case?

Thanks,
Ben



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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com




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