Re: AP mode my ath9k broke between 3.3 and 3.4-rc2

["John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:00:11PM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> Andrew Chant wrote:
> > 3.4-rc4 doesn't work either.
> > If I revert the patch on 3.4-rc4, the Intel card is able to associate again.
> > -Andrew
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Andrew Chant <andrew.chant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>  my Atheros AR9300 PCIe card (168c:0030) stopped working as an AP on
> >> the 5GHz band between 3.3 and 3.4-rc2.
> >> After 14 git bisects, I believe I have narrowed it down to the following patch:
> >>
> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=293702a3fb75832613e2af097bdc3ac8ef775b33
> >>
> >> mac80211: use common radiotap code for cooked monitors
> 
> Same problem here with ar9285 / 2.4GHz / eap-tls / 802.11n / hostapd
> 0.7.3 / compat-wireless-3.4-rc3-1.tar.bz2
> 
> Removing "mac80211: use common radiotap code for cooked monitors" solves
> the problem here, too.
> 
> Using rt2860 as AP seems not to be a problem.

Sounds like we may need to revert it upstream.  Johannes, any comments?

John
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