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authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>2011-04-21 14:10:27 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-04-25 14:50:17 -0400
commit40db6c77ab48c3f3240422ff92fd6da222e2eb95 (patch)
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cfg80211: module_param to disable HT40 in 2.4GHz band
Currently mac80211 uses ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz module parameter to allow disabling 40MHz operation in the 2.4GHz band. Move this handling from mac80211 to cfg80211 so that the feature will be more generic. Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/main.c18
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/core.c17
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 0ab2a8df312d..61877662e8f8 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -33,12 +33,6 @@
#include "cfg.h"
#include "debugfs.h"
-
-static bool ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz;
-module_param(ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz, bool, 0644);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz,
- "Disable 40MHz support in the 2.4GHz band");
-
static struct lock_class_key ieee80211_rx_skb_queue_class;
void ieee80211_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_local *local)
@@ -728,18 +722,6 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
}
channels += sband->n_channels;
- /*
- * Since ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz is global, we can
- * modify the sband's ht data even if the driver uses a
- * global structure for that.
- */
- if (ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz &&
- band == IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ &&
- sband->ht_cap.ht_supported) {
- sband->ht_cap.cap &= ~IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40;
- sband->ht_cap.cap &= ~IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SGI_40;
- }
-
if (max_bitrates < sband->n_bitrates)
max_bitrates = sband->n_bitrates;
supp_ht = supp_ht || sband->ht_cap.ht_supported;
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index fe01de29bfe8..bbf1fa11107a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ static struct dentry *ieee80211_debugfs_dir;
/* for the cleanup, scan and event works */
struct workqueue_struct *cfg80211_wq;
+static bool cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz;
+module_param(cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz,
+ "Disable 40MHz support in the 2.4GHz band");
+
/* requires cfg80211_mutex to be held! */
struct cfg80211_registered_device *cfg80211_rdev_by_wiphy_idx(int wiphy_idx)
{
@@ -451,6 +456,18 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy)
return -EINVAL;
/*
+ * Since cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz is global, we can
+ * modify the sband's ht data even if the driver uses a
+ * global structure for that.
+ */
+ if (cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz &&
+ band == IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ &&
+ sband->ht_cap.ht_supported) {
+ sband->ht_cap.cap &= ~IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40;
+ sband->ht_cap.cap &= ~IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SGI_40;
+ }
+
+ /*
* Since we use a u32 for rate bitmaps in
* ieee80211_get_response_rate, we cannot
* have more than 32 legacy rates.