From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <moham...@qca.qualcomm.com>
We need to have the promiscus mode enabled for older
chipset(ie rule out many frames being filtered in the
hardware itself)if 'FIF_OTHER_BSS' flag is set, when we
start the mesh mode. Fix this by enabling promiscus
mode for all chipsets whose macversion <= AR9160
chipsets. This should fix
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45591
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <moham...@qca.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
index 4480c0c..76db0b3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
@@ -424,8 +424,8 @@ u32 ath_calcrxfilter(struct ath_softc *sc)
rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_COMP_BAR;
if (sc->nvifs > 1 || (sc->rx.rxfilter & FIF_OTHER_BSS)) {
- /* The following may also be needed for other older chips */
- if (sc->sc_ah->hw_version.macVersion == AR_SREV_VERSION_9160)
+ /* This is needed for older chips, especially for mesh mode */
+ if (sc->sc_ah->hw_version.macVersion <= AR_SREV_VERSION_9160)
rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PROM;
rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL;
}
--
1.7.0.4
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