[Trusty][PATCH 4/5] iwlwifi: mvm: disable scheduled scan to prevent firmware crash

Adam Lee adam.lee at canonical.com
Fri Nov 21 08:16:13 UTC 2014


From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393317

There are firmwares which don't support scheduled scan.
Disable it for now.
Linus's system encoutered this issue.
Thanks to David Spinadel for his help.

Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 77b2f2865956b7573f9b040db7a9f808b434acd1)
Signed-off-by: Adam Lee <adam.lee at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index dcfbb9a..3e9ae4c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -246,7 +246,8 @@ int iwl_mvm_mac_setup_register(struct iwl_mvm *mvm)
 	else
 		hw->wiphy->flags &= ~WIPHY_FLAG_PS_ON_BY_DEFAULT;
 
-	hw->wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SCAN;
+	/* TODO: enable that only for firmwares that don't crash */
+	/* hw->wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SCAN; */
 	hw->wiphy->max_sched_scan_ssids = PROBE_OPTION_MAX;
 	hw->wiphy->max_match_sets = IWL_SCAN_MAX_PROFILES;
 	/* we create the 802.11 header and zero length SSID IE. */
-- 
2.1.3





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