b43: fix frequency reported on G-PHY with /new/ firmware
authorRafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:28:22 +0000 (22:28 +0200)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 13:51:03 +0000 (15:51 +0200)
commitbf792b9b9abf281511c8a7cbbd1518ff6adac7d8
tree908fc6203bf636f22a35791572149a38bb2c6dd3
parent9b272249cf3509f4d61120fa900c5ab143534437
b43: fix frequency reported on G-PHY with /new/ firmware

commit 2fc68eb122c7ea6cd5be1fe7d6650c0beb2f4f40 upstream.

Support for firmware rev 508+ was added years ago, but we never noticed
it reports channel in a different way for G-PHY devices. Instead of
offset from 2400 MHz it simply passes channel id (AKA hw_value).

So far it was (most probably) affecting monitor mode users only, but
the following recent commit made it noticeable for quite everybody:

commit 3afc2167f60a327a2c1e1e2600ef209a3c2b75b7
Author: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 4 16:50:13 2014 +0200

    cfg80211/mac80211: ignore signal if the frame was heard on wrong channel

Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c