On 19/09/2018, Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:47:18PM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>> > Can you show us how will the problem trigger on dual band devices?
>>
>> When you switch from some 2.4GHz channel to 5GHz channel (or vice versa)
>> ->curr_band will point to old band not the new one. To fix that you
>> have to move curr_band assignemt before ->config() in
>> rt2x00lib_config() i.e:
>>
>> rt2x00dev->curr_band = conf->chandef.chan->band;
>> rt2x00dev->ops->lib->config(rt2x00dev, &libconf, ieee80211_flags);
>>
>> However I do not see the point of replacyng rf->channel check
>> to ->curr_band check. What you can do is oposite thing, replace
>> wrong usage of ->curr_band in very few places in rt2800_config()
>> subroutines to rf->channel check.
>
> Actually ->curr_band is used in rt2800_config_ant() subroutines
> not in rt2800_config() subroutines so things looks ok.
>
> Stanislaw
>

Things should be ok, still if you have some of these cards, it'd be
better to verify that.
At least my MS150N usb card would panic when I did the very same
change in rf53xx channel config, probably because of the way the
btcoex idx value has been set.
Luckily I figured that chipset is single-band only and the patch3 was
enough to handle that:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg177430.html

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