[PATCH] ath6kl: ignore WMI_TXE_NOTIFY_EVENTID based on fw capability flags

Valo, Kalle kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri Mar 11 04:20:27 PST 2016


Steve deRosier <derosier at gmail.com> writes:

> Certain 6004 firmware releases redefine the WMI_TXE_NOTIFY_EVENTID event
> number and sends the new event frequently. However it doesn't have the
> tx-err-notify feature and thus this firmware capability flag isn't set on
> the firmware package. By guarding the processing of this event by the same
> method we guard the sending of the WMI_SET_TXE_NOTIFY_CMDID command, we
> can ignore the spurious event that we don't know how to process.
>
> Without this change we call cfg80211_cqm_txe_notify() with possibly bad
> data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve deRosier <steve.derosier at lairdtech.com>

Applied to ath.git, thanks.

-- 
Kalle Valo


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