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Christian Lamparter 05e7ba24b1 ath10k: implement set_base_macaddr to fix rx-bssid mask in multiple APs conf 
Many integrated QCA9984 WiFis in various IPQ806x platform routers
from various vendors (Netgear R7800, ZyXEL NBG6817, TP-LINK C2600,
etc.) have either blank, bogus or non-unique MAC-addresses in
their calibration data.

As a result, OpenWrt utilizes a discouraged binary calibration data
patching method that allows to modify the device's MAC-addresses right
at the source. This is because the ath10k' firmware extracts the MAC
address from the supplied radio/calibration data and issues a response
to the ath10k linux driver. Which was designed to take the main MAC in
ath10k_wmi_event_ready().

Part of the "setting an alternate MAC" issue was already tackled by a
patch from Brian Norris:
commit 9d5804662c
("ath10k: retrieve MAC address from system firmware if provided")
by allowing the option to specify an alternate MAC-address with the
established device_get_mac_address() function which extracts the right
address from DeviceTree/fwnode mac-address or local-mac-address
properties and saves it for later.

However, Ben Greear noted that the Qualcomm's ath10k firmware is liable
to not properly calculate its rx-bssid mask in this case. This can cause
issues in the popluar "multiple AP with a single ath10k instance"
configurations.

To improve MAC address handling, Felix Fietkau suggested to call
pdev_set_base_macaddr_cmdid before bringing up the first vif and
use the first vif MAC address there. Which is in ath10k_core_start().

This patch implement Felix Fietkau's request to
"call pdev_set_base_macaddr_cmdid before bringing up the first vif".
The pdev_set_base_macaddr_cmdid is already declared for all devices
and version. The driver just needed the support code for this
function.

Tested on:
QCA9880/CUS223, firmwares: 10.2.4.13-2, 10.2.4.70.44, 10.2.4-1.0-00041
QCA9887/MR33 firmware:10.2.4-1.0-00033
QCA4019/RT-AC58U firmware: 10.4-3.4-00104, 10.4-3.5.3-00057
QCA9984/R7800 firmware: Candela Technologies (CT) Firmware

BugLink: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2018-November/014595.html
Fixes: 9d5804662c ("ath10k: retrieve MAC address from system firmware if provided")
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Cc: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
2019-02-11 18:27:49 +02:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2019-02-06 16:56:20 -08:00
block Revert "block: cover another queue enter recursion via BIO_QUEUE_ENTERED" 2019-01-27 06:35:28 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto crypto: sm3 - fix undefined shift by >= width of value 2019-01-10 21:37:32 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2019-02-06 16:56:20 -08:00
drivers ath10k: implement set_base_macaddr to fix rx-bssid mask in multiple APs conf 2019-02-11 18:27:49 +02:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes 2019-02-03 11:17:31 -08:00
include Third batch of iwlwifi patches intended for v5.1 2019-02-07 11:34:26 +02:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-14 10:37:09 +09:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel bpf: introduce BPF_F_LOCK flag 2019-02-01 20:55:39 +01:00
lib XArray updates for 5.0-rc3 2019-01-22 17:08:30 +13:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm Revert "mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section" 2019-01-28 10:35:22 -08:00
net Merge branch 'for_net-next-5.1/rds-tos-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ssantosh/linux 2019-02-06 17:00:15 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: Check the prog id before exiting 2019-02-01 23:37:51 +01:00
scripts Bug fixes for gcc-plugins 2019-01-21 13:07:03 +13:00
security Merge branch 'fixes-v5.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-17 16:54:58 +12:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0-rc4 2019-01-25 05:55:26 +13:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2019-02-06 16:56:20 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() 2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format with the latest for_each macro list 2019-01-19 19:26:06 +01:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers.git 2019-02-08 14:14:35 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc4 2019-01-27 15:18:05 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.