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brcm80211: smac: resume transmit fifo upon receiving frames
authorArend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:52:51 +0000 (11:52 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:05:35 +0000 (14:05 -0400)
commitbadc4f07622f0f7093a201638f45e85765f1b5e4
treecd8573ca3d52ce344a49b1d2fc7766fd7cb4ebf3
parenteffcc625eb4ab3b10b4744237fd37e8f7dcd6511
brcm80211: smac: resume transmit fifo upon receiving frames

There have been reports about not being able to use access-points
on channel 12 and 13 or having connectivity issues when these channels
were part of the selected regulatory domain. Upon switching to these
channels the brcmsmac driver suspends the transmit dma fifos. This
patch resumes them upon handing over the first received beacon to
mac80211.

This patch is to be applied to the stable tree for kernel versions
3.2 and 3.3.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Francesco Saverio Schiavarelli <fschiava@libero.it>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c