[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ath9k: avoid accessing MRC registers on single-chain devices" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ath9k: avoid accessing MRC registers on single-chain devices

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From f8b9e2fd3bd470c731f512f69798505412b9b6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:33:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: avoid accessing MRC registers on single-chain devices

commit a1c781bb20ac1e03280e420abd47a99eb8bbdd3b upstream.

They are not implemented, and accessing them might trigger errors

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.c
index ac2aa7a..fb919e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.c
@@ -956,6 +956,10 @@ static bool ar9003_hw_ani_control(struct ath_hw *ah,
 		 * is_on == 0 means MRC CCK is OFF (more noise imm)
 		 */
 		bool is_on = param ? 1 : 0;
+
+		if (ah->caps.rx_chainmask == 1)
+			break;
+
 		REG_RMW_FIELD(ah, AR_PHY_MRC_CCK_CTRL,
 			      AR_PHY_MRC_CCK_ENABLE, is_on);
 		REG_RMW_FIELD(ah, AR_PHY_MRC_CCK_CTRL,
--
1.8.3.2