Return-path: Received: from static.88-198-24-112.clients.your-server.de ([88.198.24.112]:42455 "EHLO nbd.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbbIXO7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:59:50 -0400 From: Felix Fietkau To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: kvalo@codeaurora.org Subject: [PATCH 4.3] ath9k: declare required extra tx headroom Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:59:46 +0200 Message-Id: <1443106786-67564-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> (sfid-20150924_165953_277668_7D834078) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: ath9k inserts padding between the 802.11 header and the data area (to align it). Since it didn't declare this extra required headroom, this led to some nasty issues like randomly dropped packets in some setups. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c index 57f95f2..90eb750 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c @@ -880,6 +880,7 @@ static void ath9k_set_hw_capab(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_hw *hw) hw->max_rate_tries = 10; hw->sta_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_node); hw->vif_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_vif); + hw->extra_tx_headroom = 4; hw->wiphy->available_antennas_rx = BIT(ah->caps.max_rxchains) - 1; hw->wiphy->available_antennas_tx = BIT(ah->caps.max_txchains) - 1; -- 2.2.2