wifi: ath11k: ipq6018 monitor mode is not working properly

[Kalle Valo]

Robert Marko <robert.marko at sartura.hr> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 1:58 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Legale Legage <legale.legale at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I'm trying to use wifi monitor mode on ipq6018. Captured frames are
>> > malformed. Tested with 2 diff kernels (4.4.60, 5.14) and two diff wifi
>> > fw (2.6, 2.7) with the same result.
>>
>> v4.4 was released back in 2016 and doesn't even have ath11k. v5.14 was
>> released over a year ago so is considered old from ath11k point of view.
>> Please try a more recent kernel, preferably v6.0.
>
> I am gonna guess that 4.4.60 is QCA downstream kernel.

Ah, for any QSDK issues I'll raise my hands up and not going to touch
them. This list is only for kernel.org releases, any distro kernel bugs
need to be reported directly to distros. I do not know what out-of-tree
patches distros have.

> The issue with mainline kernels is that there is no remoteproc support
> for IPQ8074 nor IPQ6018, I have been working towards getting the
> IPQ8074 and its working with remoteproc patches added but the
> situation is not ideal as for example coldboot calibration does not
> work which could be a bug in the remoteproc patches I am using.

Nice, do you have the patches available somewhere? What distro are you
using?

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