From 9eb61e6a6e9e64ec4426529adf64a40e8082f829 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:59:46 +0200 Subject: ath9k: declare required extra tx headroom [ Upstream commit 029cd0370241641eb70235d205aa0b90c84dce44 ] 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 Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- 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 3bd030494986..ee15a579ec70 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c @@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ 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; -- cgit v1.2.3