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wcn36xx: turn off probe response offloading

PATCH In review Ramon Fried 2 participants 2 messages Mar 14, 2018 – Mar 29, 2018 Qualcomm WCN36XX wireless driver

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PATCH 1/1 wcn36xx: turn off probe response offloading

It appears that the WCN36xx firmware doesn't actually respond to probe requests. Until it's resolved, switch the probe response responsibility to the 802.11 layer to allow creation of hidden SSID AP's.

Signed-off-by Ramon Fried <[email protected]>
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 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c +0 -2
index ab5be6d2c691..9d8c177ac7e1 100644
@@ -1155,8 +1155,6 @@ static int wcn36xx_init_ieee80211(struct wcn36xx *wcn)
 	wcn->hw->wiphy->cipher_suites = cipher_suites;
 	wcn->hw->wiphy->n_cipher_suites = ARRAY_SIZE(cipher_suites);
 
-	wcn->hw->wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_AP_PROBE_RESP_OFFLOAD;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
 	wcn->hw->wiphy->wowlan = &wowlan_support;
 #endif
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Quoted 7 lines · Ramon Fried

It appears that the WCN36xx firmware doesn't actually respond to probe requests. Until it's resolved, switch the probe response responsibility to the 802.11 layer to allow creation of hidden SSID AP's.

Signed-off-by Ramon Fried <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Kalle Valo <[email protected]>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

ee35eecb0822 wcn36xx: turn off probe response offloading

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10282035/

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