The commit that went into 3.17:

    ath9k: Summarize hw state per channel context

    Group and set hw state (opmode, primary_sta, beacon conf) per
    channel context instead of whole list of vifs. This would allow
    each channel context to run in different mode (STA/AP).

    Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
    Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

broke multi-vif configuration due to not properly calculating
the bssid mask.

The test case that caught this was:

 create wlan0 and sta0-4 (6 total), not sure how much that matters.
 associate all 6 (works fine)
 disconnect 5 of them, leaving sta0 up
 Start trying to bring up the other 5 one at a time.  It will
 fail, with iw events looking like this (in these logs, several
 sta are trying to come up, but symptom is the same with just one)

The patch causing the regression made quite a few changes, but
the part I think caused this particular problem was not
recalculating the bssid mask when adding and removing interfaces.

Re-adding those calls fixes my test case.  Fix bad comment
as well.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Based on the reference clock, which could be 25MHz or 40MHz,
AR_RTC_DERIVED_CLK is programmed differently for AR9340 and AR9550.
But, when a chip reset is done, processing the initvals
sets the register back to the default value.

Fix this by moving the code in ath9k_hw_init_pll() to
ar9003_hw_override_ini(). Also, do this override for AR9531.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The right shift operation has higher precedence than the mask so we
left shift by "(i * 3)" and then immediately right shift by "(i * 3)"
then we mask.  It should be left shift, mask, and then right shift.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

In some cases the limit may be the same as reg->power_limit, but the
actual value that the hardware uses is not up to date. In that case, a
wrong value for current tx power is tracked internally.
Fix this by unconditionally updating it.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Many AP devices do not have the proper regulatory domain programmed in
EEPROM. Instead they expect the software to set the appropriate region.
For these devices, the country code defaults to US, and the driver uses
the US CTL tables as well.
On devices bought in Europe this can lead to tx power being set too high
on the band edges, even if the cfg80211 regdomain is set correctly.
Fix this issue by taking into account the DFS region, but only when the
EEPROM regdomain is set to default.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Enabling HW queue control for normal (non-mcc) mode
causes problems with queue management, resulting
in traffic stall. Since it is mainly required for
fairness in MCC mode, disable it for the general case.

Bug: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18164

Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

John W. Linville says:

====================
pull request: wireless-next 2014-10-09

Please pull this batch of fixes intended for the 3.18 stream!

Andrea Merello makes rtl818x_pci use a more reasonable transmission
rate for HW generated frames.

Fabian Frederick tweaks some kernel-doc bits to avoid warnings.

Larry Finger corrects a possible unaligned access in the rtlwifi code.

Marek Puzyniak avoids a kernel panic in ath9k_hw_reset.

Sujith Manoharan goes for the hat trick -- he fixes a smatch warning
in the shared ath code, he fixes a crash in ath9k, and he corrects
a sequence number assignment problem in ath9k too.

For ease of merging, I pulled the last bits of the wireless tree as well...

Please let me know if there are problems!
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Currently, ath9k uses a global counter for all
frames that need to be assigned a sequence number.
QoS-data frames are handled properly since they
have a per-tid counter. But, beacons and other
management frames use the same counter even if
multiple interfaces or contexts are present.

Fix this issue by making the counter per-interface
and using it when mac80211 sets IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

hw pointer of ath_hw is not assigned to proper value
in function ath9k_hw_reset what finally causes kernel panic.
This can be solved by proper initialization of ath_hw in
ath9k_init_priv.

Signed-off-by: Marek Puzyniak <marek.puzyniak@tieto.com>
Acked-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When a channel context is removed, the hw_queue_base
is set to -1, this will result in a panic because
ath9k_chanctx_stop_queues() can be called on an interface
that is not assigned to any context yet - for example,
when trying to scan.

Fix this issue by setting the hw_queue_base to zero
when a channel context is removed.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>