This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwlwifi: mvm: support sta_statistics() even on older firmware
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
iwlwifi-mvm-support-sta_statistics-even-on-older-firmware.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ec484d03ef0df8d34086b95710e355a259cbe1f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:25:48 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: support sta_statistics() even on older firmware
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
commit ec484d03ef0df8d34086b95710e355a259cbe1f2 upstream.
The oldest firmware supported by iwlmvm do support getting
the average beacon RSSI. Enable the sta_statistics() call
from mac80211 even on older firmware versions.
Fixes: 33cef9256342 ("iwlwifi: mvm: support beacon statistics for BSS client")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -3976,10 +3976,6 @@ static void iwl_mvm_mac_sta_statistics(s
sinfo->filled |= BIT(NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG);
}
- if (!fw_has_capa(&mvm->fw->ucode_capa,
- IWL_UCODE_TLV_CAPA_RADIO_BEACON_STATS))
- return;
-
/* if beacon filtering isn't on mac80211 does it anyway */
if (!(vif->driver_flags & IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER))
return;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/iwlwifi-mvm-support-sta_statistics-even-on-older-firmware.patch
queue-4.9/iwlwifi-mvm-fix-regulatory-domain-update-when-the-firmware-starts.patch
