linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 091/125] b43: fix frequency reported on G-PHY with /new/ firmware

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Message-ID: <lsq.1404846110.823824936@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:01:50 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Aaro Koskinen" <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 091/125] b43: fix frequency reported on G-PHY with
 /new/ firmware

3.2.61-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>

commit 2fc68eb122c7ea6cd5be1fe7d6650c0beb2f4f40 upstream.

Support for firmware rev 508+ was added years ago, but we never noticed
it reports channel in a different way for G-PHY devices. Instead of
offset from 2400 MHz it simply passes channel id (AKA hw_value).

So far it was (most probably) affecting monitor mode users only, but
the following recent commit made it noticeable for quite everybody:

commit 3afc2167f60a327a2c1e1e2600ef209a3c2b75b7
Author: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 4 16:50:13 2014 +0200

    cfg80211/mac80211: ignore signal if the frame was heard on wrong channel

Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c
@@ -808,9 +808,13 @@ void b43_rx(struct b43_wldev *dev, struc
 		break;
 	case B43_PHYTYPE_G:
 		status.band = IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ;
-		/* chanid is the radio channel cookie value as used
-		 * to tune the radio. */
-		status.freq = chanid + 2400;
+		/* Somewhere between 478.104 and 508.1084 firmware for G-PHY
+		 * has been modified to be compatible with N-PHY and others.
+		 */
+		if (dev->fw.rev >= 508)
+			status.freq = ieee80211_channel_to_frequency(chanid, status.band);
+		else
+			status.freq = chanid + 2400;
 		break;
 	case B43_PHYTYPE_N:
 	case B43_PHYTYPE_LP:

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