You could take this patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/65202/
but drop the affinity control from it.

Your implementation of set_channels() would then refuse all changes to
the numbers of TX/other/combined channels.

Ben.

Thanks Ben for sharing this.
David,
        Please discard this patch, I will resubmit patch based on Ben patch.

-Amit

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