On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 12:54:21AM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > Hi, > > Please backport the following patch back to the stable series 6.6 and 6.1: > commit a8bca3e9371dc5e276af4168be099b2a05554c2a > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Feb 28 12:01:57 2024 +0100 > > wifi: mac80211: track capability/opmode NSS separately > > There is a small conflict in the copyright year update in > net/mac80211/sta_info.h, just take the 2024 version. > > > On kernel 6.1 please backport this patch first to make the other one apply: > commit 57b341e9ab13e5688491bfd54f8b5502416c8905 > Author: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Feb 7 17:11:46 2023 +0530 > > wifi: mac80211: Allow NSS change only up to capability > > > > This commit fixes a throughput regression introduced into Linux stable with > the backport of following commit: > > commit dd6c064cfc3fc18d871107c6f5db8837e88572e4 > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Jan 29 15:53:55 2024 +0100 > > wifi: mac80211: set station RX-NSS on reconfig > > On older kernel versions it is harder to backport the fixes, maybe revert > the offending commit in Linux stable 5.15 and older. > > This regression was found by multiple users of OpenWrt in Wifi AP mode. > See the discussion in this forum thread: > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-23-05-4-service-release/204514/111 > > Thank you KONG from the OpenWrt forum for finding the commit which reduced > the Wifi throughput. This is a bit complex, please provide a series of backported patches for each tree that you have tested and done the needed changes to get working properly. Otherwise, the above descriptions are going to take a long time for us to get to, sorry, as we have much more "simpler" things to backport at this point in time. thanks, greg k-h
