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

[Andrew Chant <andrew.chant@xxxxxxxxx>]

Felix's patch directly applied on top of 3.4.0-rc4 works in my case.

-Andrew

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2012-04-24 2:54 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>> 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?
> That's a known bug, which I submitted a fix for. When looking at the
> 3.4-rc4 log, I don't see my fix in there. It was submitted as
> "[PATCH] mac80211: fix truncated packets in cooked monitor rx"
>
> - Felix
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