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| author | Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> | 2012-12-17 16:30:05 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2013-01-07 15:16:52 -0500 |
| commit | 7a5c7307736cdc26146581aed24cc46a4c7e6f35 (patch) | |
| tree | b705e84165e1b89e38e53e6880ba32c426f78b9c /drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c | |
| parent | 17f658ac8c7e0af0c7aa12587477f9bbc093229e (diff) | |
carl9170: don't enable hw crypto offload, if the fw doesn't support it
Previously, op_start would set disable_offload always
to false, even if it was set to true by the fw parser.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c index 95e4bf05e559..6ca5dd068275 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c @@ -358,8 +358,13 @@ static int carl9170_op_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) ar->ps.last_action = jiffies; ar->ps.last_slept = jiffies; ar->erp_mode = CARL9170_ERP_AUTO; - ar->rx_software_decryption = false; - ar->disable_offload = false; + + /* Set "disable hw crypto offload" whenever the module parameter + * nohwcrypt is true or if the firmware does not support it. + */ + ar->disable_offload = modparam_nohwcrypt | + ar->fw.disable_offload_fw; + ar->rx_software_decryption = ar->disable_offload; for (i = 0; i < ar->hw->queues; i++) { ar->queue_stop_timeout[i] = jiffies; @@ -565,12 +570,20 @@ static int carl9170_init_interface(struct ar9170 *ar, memcpy(common->macaddr, vif->addr, ETH_ALEN); - if (modparam_nohwcrypt || - ((vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) && - (vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP))) { - ar->rx_software_decryption = true; - ar->disable_offload = true; - } + /* We have to fall back to software crypto, whenever + * the user choose to participates in an IBSS. HW + * offload for IBSS RSN is not supported by this driver. + * + * NOTE: If the previous main interface has already + * disabled hw crypto offload, we have to keep this + * previous disable_offload setting as it was. + * Altough ideally, we should notify mac80211 and tell + * it to forget about any HW crypto offload for now. + */ + ar->disable_offload |= ((vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) && + (vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)); + + ar->rx_software_decryption = ar->disable_offload; err = carl9170_set_operating_mode(ar); return err; @@ -1160,9 +1173,7 @@ static int carl9170_op_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, enum set_key_cmd cmd, if (ar->disable_offload || !vif) return -EOPNOTSUPP; - /* - * We have to fall back to software encryption, whenever - * the user choose to participates in an IBSS or is connected + /* Fall back to software encryption whenever the driver is connected * to more than one network. * * This is very unfortunate, because some machines cannot handle |