iwlwifi: mvm: add WEP RX hardware offload support

[android-x86/kernel.git] / drivers / net / wireless / iwlwifi / mvm / mac80211.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index f3379d7..08976c3 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -2330,12 +2330,16 @@ static int iwl_mvm_mac_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                break;
        case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_WEP40:
        case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_WEP104:
-               /*
-                * Support for TX only, at least for now, so accept
-                * the key and do nothing else. Then mac80211 will
-                * pass it for TX but we don't have to use it for RX.
+               /* For non-client mode, only use WEP keys for TX as we probably
+                * don't have a station yet anyway and would then have to keep
+                * track of the keys, linking them to each of the clients/peers
+                * as they appear. For now, don't do that, for performance WEP
+                * offload doesn't really matter much, but we need it for some
+                * other offload features in client mode.
                 */
-               return 0;
+               if (vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
+                       return 0;
+               break;
        default:
                /* currently FW supports only one optional cipher scheme */
                if (hw->n_cipher_schemes &&