Patch "ath10k: fix failure to send NULL func frame for 10.4" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ath10k: fix failure to send NULL func frame for 10.4

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     ath10k-fix-failure-to-send-null-func-frame-for-10.4.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 03:40:57 +0200
Subject: ath10k: fix failure to send NULL func frame for 10.4

From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <[email protected]>

commit fcf7cf1551cae54e747a771f5808240f2a37708f upstream.

This partially reverts 'commit 2cdce425aa33 ("ath10k: Fix broken NULL func data frame status for 10.4")' Unfortunately this breaks sending NULL func and the existing issue of obtaining proper tx status for NULL function will be fixed. Also update the comments for feature flag added to be useless and not working

10.4"

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h |    6 ++----
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c  |    2 --
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -557,10 +557,8 @@ enum ath10k_fw_features {
 	 */
 	ATH10K_FW_FEATURE_BTCOEX_PARAM = 14,
 
-	/* Older firmware with HTT delivers incorrect tx status for null func
-	 * frames to driver, but this fixed in 10.2 and 10.4 firmware versions.
-	 * Also this workaround results in reporting of incorrect null func
-	 * status for 10.4. This flag is used to skip the workaround.
+	/* Unused flag and proven to be not working, enable this if you want
+	 * to experiment sending NULL func data frames in HTT TX
 	 */
 	ATH10K_FW_FEATURE_SKIP_NULL_FUNC_WAR = 15,
 

@@ -3255,8 +3255,6 @@ ath10k_mac_tx_h_get_txmode(struct ath10k
 	if (ar->htt.target_version_major < 3 &&
 	    (ieee80211_is_nullfunc(fc) || ieee80211_is_qos_nullfunc(fc)) &&
 	    !test_bit(ATH10K_FW_FEATURE_HAS_WMI_MGMT_TX,
-		      ar->running_fw->fw_file.fw_features) &&
-	    !test_bit(ATH10K_FW_FEATURE_SKIP_NULL_FUNC_WAR,
 		      ar->running_fw->fw_file.fw_features))
 		return ATH10K_HW_TXRX_MGMT;
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/ath10k-fix-failure-to-send-null-func-frame-for-10.4.patch