The firmware notifies about interface changes through the IF event
which has a NO_IF flag that means host can ignore the event. This
behaviour was introduced in the driver by:
commit 2ee8382fc6c763c76396a6aaff77a27089eed3aa
Author: Arend van Spriel <ar...@broadcom.com>
Date: Sat Aug 10 12:27:24 2013 +0200
brcmfmac: ignore IF event if firmware indicates it
It turns out that the IF event for the P2P_DEVICE also has this
flag set, but the event should not be ignored in this scenario.
The mentioned commit caused a regression in 3.12 kernel in creation
of the P2P_DEVICE interface.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14, 3.16
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meule...@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <fran...@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <de...@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <piete...@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <ar...@broadcom.com>
---
Hi John,
Here is another straggling patch. This patch is intended for the
3.17 and some stable kernels. It applies to the master branch of
the wireless repository.
Regards,
Arend
---
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c | 12 +++++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
index 4f1daab..44fc85f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
@@ -185,7 +185,13 @@ static void brcmf_fweh_handle_if_event(struct brcmf_pub
*drvr,
ifevent->action, ifevent->ifidx, ifevent->bssidx,
ifevent->flags, ifevent->role);
- if (ifevent->flags & BRCMF_E_IF_FLAG_NOIF) {
+ /* The P2P Device interface event must not be ignored
+ * contrary to what firmware tells us. The only way to
+ * distinguish the P2P Device is by looking at the ifidx
+ * and bssidx received.
+ */
+ if (!(ifevent->ifidx == 0 && ifevent->bssidx == 1) &&
+ (ifevent->flags & BRCMF_E_IF_FLAG_NOIF)) {
brcmf_dbg(EVENT, "event can be ignored\n");
return;
}
@@ -210,12 +216,12 @@ static void brcmf_fweh_handle_if_event(struct brcmf_pub
*drvr,
return;
}
- if (ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_CHANGE)
+ if (ifp && ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_CHANGE)
brcmf_fws_reset_interface(ifp);
err = brcmf_fweh_call_event_handler(ifp, emsg->event_code, emsg, data);
- if (ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_DEL) {
+ if (ifp && ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_DEL) {
brcmf_fws_del_interface(ifp);
brcmf_del_if(drvr, ifevent->bssidx);
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h
b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h
index dd20b18..cbf033f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ enum brcmf_fweh_event_code {
#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_STA 0
#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_AP 1
#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_WDS 2
+#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_P2P_GO 3
+#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_P2P_CLIENT 4
/**
* definitions for event packet validation.
--
1.9.1
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