wcn36xx: connection monitoring issue

From: Damien Riegel <hidden>
Date: 2017-10-27 15:55:13
Also in: linux-arm-msm, linux-wireless, lkml
Subsystem: atheros ath generic utilities, qualcomm wcn36xx wireless driver, the rest · Maintainers: Jeff Johnson, Loic Poulain, Linus Torvalds

Hi,


I'm working on a board derived from the DragonBoard-410c (apq8016 +
wcn3620) and noticed an issue with WiFi connection monitoring. When I
get out of the range of the access point, the device stays associated,
no matter how far I go or how long I wait.

The chip on this board is the WCN3620, and the driver sets
IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR at drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c:1127, 
so the hardware is supposed to do the monitoring, but it looks like it
doesn't. If I comment out this flag (snippet at the end of the email),
the correct behaviour is observed.

Has anyone else noticed that issue?


Thanks,
Damien
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
index 35bd50bcbbd5..2aa1643d15bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
@@ -1124,7 +1124,6 @@ static int wcn36xx_init_ieee80211(struct wcn36xx *wcn)

        ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, TIMING_BEACON_ONLY);
        ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, AMPDU_AGGREGATION);
-       ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, CONNECTION_MONITOR);
        ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, SUPPORTS_PS);
        ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, SIGNAL_DBM);
        ieee80211_hw_set(wcn->hw, HAS_RATE_CONTROL);
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