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Christian Lamparter authored
Many integrated QCA9984 WiFis in various IPQ806x platform routers from various vendors (Netgear R7800, ZyXEL NBG6817, TP-LINK C2600, etc.) have either blank, bogus or non-unique MAC-addresses in their calibration data. As a result, OpenWrt utilizes a discouraged binary calibration data patching method that allows to modify the device's MAC-addresses right at the source. This is because the ath10k' firmware extracts the MAC address from the supplied radio/calibration data and issues a response to the ath10k linux driver. Which was designed to take the main MAC in ath10k_wmi_event_ready(). Part of the "setting an alternate MAC" issue was already tackled by a patch from Brian Norris: commit 9d580466 ("ath10k: retrieve MAC address from system firmware if provided") by allowing the option to specify an alternate MAC-address with the established device_get_mac_address() function which extracts the right address from DeviceTree/fwnode mac-address or local-mac-address properties and saves it for later. However, Ben Greear noted that the Qualcomm's ath10k firmware is liable to not properly calculate its rx-bssid mask in this case. This can cause issues in the popluar "multiple AP with a single ath10k instance" configurations. To improve MAC address handling, Felix Fietkau suggested to call pdev_set_base_macaddr_cmdid before bringing up the first vif and use the first vif MAC address there. Which is in ath10k_core_start(). This patch implement Felix Fietkau's request to "call pdev_set_base_macaddr_cmdid before bringing up the first vif". The pdev_set_base_macaddr_cmdid is already declared for all devices and version. The driver just needed the support code for this function. Tested on: QCA9880/CUS223, firmwares: 10.2.4.13-2, 10.2.4.70.44, 10.2.4-1.0-00041 QCA9887/MR33 firmware:10.2.4-1.0-00033 QCA4019/RT-AC58U firmware: 10.4-3.4-00104, 10.4-3.5.3-00057 QCA9984/R7800 firmware: Candela Technologies (CT) Firmware BugLink: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2018-November/014595.html Fixes: 9d580466 ("ath10k: retrieve MAC address from system firmware if provided") Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Cc: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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