[PATCH] ltq-deu: Mark lantiq DEU broken

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com
Sun Jun 27 00:38:41 PDT 2021


Hi Hauke,

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:55 AM Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>
> When the ltq_deu_vr9 kernel module is loaded, hostapd does not start any
> more. it fails with thgis error message:
> daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed
> daemon.err hostapd: Interface initialization failed
>
> OpenWrt uses the standard Linux crypto API in the wifi drivers now
> and this probably makes the system offload more crypto operations to
> special hardware like the Lantiq DEU. There is probably a bug in the DEU
> and these operations fail and then hostapd does not start the interface.
>
> Just mark the Lantiq DEU as broken for now.
>
> Fixes: FS#3901
> Fixes: 53b6783907f3 ("mac80211: remove patches stripping down crypto support")
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
I am testing wifi with Linux 5.10 only these days where ltq-deu is
disabled anyways
so feel free to add my:
Acked-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>



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