Brian Norris <[email protected]> wrote: > As it is, doing something like > > # iw phy phy0 interface add foobar type ibss > > on a firmware that doesn't have ad-hoc support just yields failures of > HostCmd_CMD_SET_BSS_MODE, which happened to return a '-1' error code > (-EPERM? not really right...) and sometimes may even crash the firmware > along the way. > > Let's parse the firmware capability flag while registering the wiphy, so > we don't allow attempting IBSS at all, and we get a proper -EOPNOTSUPP > from nl80211 instead. > > Fixes: e267e71e68ae ("mwifiex: Disable adhoc feature based on firmware > capability") > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <[email protected]>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. 6f21ab30469d mwifiex: don't advertise IBSS features without FW support -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10814041/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
