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authorChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>2020-05-05 10:42:09 +0300
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>2020-05-06 09:14:20 +0300
commitb14fba7ebd04082f7767a11daea7f12f3593de22 (patch)
tree9eca7d2547e2228791994dbfda322cd222681fd9 /drivers/net/wireless
parente7f33e0c52c0df42f817a8468bf55be6648f9b5f (diff)
carl9170: remove P2P_GO support
This patch follows up on a bug-report by Frank Schäfer that discovered P2P GO wasn't working with wpa_supplicant. This patch removes part of the broken P2P GO support but keeps the vif switchover code in place. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: <https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a9d86b6-744f-e670-8792-9167257edef8@googlemail.com> Reported-by: Frank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200425092811.9494-1-chunkeey@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c21
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c
index 51934d191f33..1ab09e1c9ec5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c
@@ -338,9 +338,7 @@ static int carl9170_fw(struct ar9170 *ar, const __u8 *data, size_t len)
ar->hw->wiphy->interface_modes |= BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC);
if (SUPP(CARL9170FW_WLANTX_CAB)) {
- if_comb_types |=
- BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |
- BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO);
+ if_comb_types |= BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP);
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH
if_comb_types |=
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
index 5914926a5c5b..816929fb5b14 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c
@@ -582,11 +582,10 @@ static int carl9170_init_interface(struct ar9170 *ar,
ar->disable_offload |= ((vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) &&
(vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP));
- /* While the driver supports HW offload in a single
- * P2P client configuration, it doesn't support HW
- * offload in the favourit, concurrent P2P GO+CLIENT
- * configuration. Hence, HW offload will always be
- * disabled for P2P.
+ /* The driver used to have P2P GO+CLIENT support,
+ * but since this was dropped and we don't know if
+ * there are any gremlins lurking in the shadows,
+ * so best we keep HW offload disabled for P2P.
*/
ar->disable_offload |= vif->p2p;
@@ -639,18 +638,6 @@ static int carl9170_op_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
break;
- /* P2P GO [master] use-case
- * Because the P2P GO station is selected dynamically
- * by all participating peers of a WIFI Direct network,
- * the driver has be able to change the main interface
- * operating mode on the fly.
- */
- if (main_vif->p2p && vif->p2p &&
- vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
- old_main = main_vif;
- break;
- }
-
err = -EBUSY;
rcu_read_unlock();