linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add .set_antenna callback in ath6kl driver to remove wireless core warns

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:23:47 +0000
From:	"Valo, Kalle" <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
To:	Prasun Maiti <prasunmaiti87@...il.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"ath6kl@...ts.infradead.org" <ath6kl@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Wireless" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <prasunmaii87@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .set_antenna callback in ath6kl driver to remove
 wireless core warns

Prasun Maiti <prasunmaiti87@...il.com> writes:

> Since add more warnings for inconsistent ops in cfg80211, the wireless
> core warns if a driver implements a cfg80211 callback but doesn't
> implements the inverse operation. The ath6kl driver implements a cfg80211
> .get_antenna operation handler but doesn't have the inverse .set_antenna
> callback. So, it makes warning.
>
> To remove this warning, add .set_antenna callback in ath6kl driver and
> also send a cmd to firmware with it's values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prasun Maiti <prasunmaiti87@...il.com>

Did you test this? What hardware and firmware version?

-- 
Kalle Valo