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Commit 5eb6ba83 authored by Javier Cardona's avatar Javier Cardona Committed by John W. Linville
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ath9k: Add support FIF_OTHER_BSS filtering mode. 



Support for FIF_OTHER_BSS was missing.  This patch adds support for this
filtering mode which in turn resolves a problem where mesh interfaces would not
receive broadcast traffic.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJavier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 9e03fdfd

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c

+4 −3
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@@ -423,11 +423,12 @@ u32 ath_calcrxfilter(struct ath_softc *sc) 
	if (sc->rx.rxfilter & FIF_PSPOLL)

		rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PSPOLL;



	if (sc->sec_wiphy) {

	if (sc->sec_wiphy || (sc->rx.rxfilter & FIF_OTHER_BSS)) {

		/* 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

		 */

		/* The following may also be needed for other older chips */

		if (sc->sc_ah->hw_version.macVersion == AR_SREV_VERSION_9160)

			rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PROM;

		rfilt |= ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL;

	}