linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 052/118] cfg80211: disable 5/10 MHz support for all drivers

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Date:	Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:11:29 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 052/118] cfg80211: disable 5/10 MHz support for all drivers

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

commit 9f16d84ad73ea04145a5dc85c8f1067915b37eea upstream.

Due to nl80211 API breakage, 5/10 MHz support is broken for
all drivers. Fixing it requires adding new API, but that
can't be done as a bugfix commit since that would require
either updating all APIs in the trees needing the bugfix or
cause different kernels to have incompatible API.

Therefore, just disable 5/10 MHz support for all drivers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/wireless/core.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -451,6 +451,9 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy)
 	int i;
 	u16 ifmodes = wiphy->interface_modes;
 
+	/* support for 5/10 MHz is broken due to nl80211 API mess - disable */
+	wiphy->flags &= ~WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_5_10_MHZ;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
 	if (WARN_ON(wiphy->wowlan &&
 		    (wiphy->wowlan->flags & WIPHY_WOWLAN_GTK_REKEY_FAILURE) &&


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