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Re: [PATCH 1/3] ath9k: Fix regression in starting ANI after association

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
<vasanth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:51:43PM +0530, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
>> <vasanth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Date:   Sat Jul 31 00:11:59 2010 +0200
>> >
>> >    ath9k: prevent calibration during off-channel activity
>> >
>> > The above patch checks for off-channel before starting ANI,
>> > but when the operating channel is set right after association,
>> > IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL would be set as still local->tmp_channel
>> > is non-NULL. This would result in not starting calibration after
>> > the association.
>
> Yes, the bug is in mac80211, but fixing this one in mac80211 looks
> not straight forward and probably Felix would know this one better,
> for now let me do this in driver and remove it once it is cleanly
> fixed in mac80211.

No, please address in mac80211, if we clean this up as a work around
we likely are overlooking other possible issues which can be affected
as well.

  Luis
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