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Commit b93bce2a authored Mar 03, 2009 by Jouni Malinen Committed by John W. Linville Mar 05, 2009

ath9k: Configure RX filter for multi-BSSID broadcast



Allow RX filter to pass through all broadcast/multicast frames (i.e.,
no BSSID filtering) if virtual interfaces are used. Software filtering
will be used in this case to drop broadcast/multicast frames for
foreign BSSIDs.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent c52f33d0

drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/mac.h

+1 −0

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		@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ enum ath9k_rx_filter {
		ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MYBEACON = 0x00000200,
		ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PSPOLL = 0x00004000,
		ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PHYRADAR = 0x00002000,
		ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL = 0x00008000,
		};

		#define ATH9K_RATESERIES_RTS_CTS 0x0001

drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c

+8 −0

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		@@ -407,6 +407,14 @@ u32 ath_calcrxfilter(struct ath_softc *sc)
		if (sc->sc_ah->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
		rfilt \|= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PSPOLL;

		if (sc->sec_wiphy) {
		/* TODO: only needed if more than one BSSID is in use in
		* station/adhoc mode */
		/* TODO: for older chips, may need to add ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PROM
		*/
		rfilt \|= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL;
		}

		return rfilt;

		#undef RX_FILTER_PRESERVE