[PATCH] ath10k: handling qos at STA side based on AP WMM enable/disable

[Sebastian Gottschall]

did you notice  that Marvell 88W8964 based clients will crash 10.4-3.5.3 
firmwares?  (tested with 9984 and 10.4-3.5.3-00038)
client device was a linksys wrt3200acm running dd-wrt for testing

Am 28.11.2017 um 11:07 schrieb bpothuno at qti.qualcomm.com:
> From: Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno at qti.qualcomm.com>
>
> Data packets are not sent by STA in case of STA joined to
> non QOS AP (WMM disabled AP). This is happening because of STA
> is sending data packets to firmware from host with qos enabled
> along with non qos queue value(TID = 16).
> Due to qos enabled, firmware is discarding the packet.
>
> This patch fixes this issue by updating the qos based on station
> WME capability field if WMM is disabled in AP.
>
> This patch is required by 10.4 family chipsets like
> QCA4019/QCA9888/QCA9884/QCA99X0.
> Firmware Versoin : 10.4-3.5.1-00018.
>
> For 10.2.4 family chipsets QCA988X/QCA9887 and QCA6174 this patch
> has no effect.
>
> Signed-off-by: Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno at qti.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> index 0a947ee..2616b99 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> @@ -2563,7 +2563,7 @@ static void ath10k_peer_assoc_h_qos(struct ath10k *ar,
>   		}
>   		break;
>   	case WMI_VDEV_TYPE_STA:
> -		if (vif->bss_conf.qos)
> +		if (sta->wme)
>   			arg->peer_flags |= arvif->ar->wmi.peer_flags->qos;
>   		break;
>   	case WMI_VDEV_TYPE_IBSS:


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