carl9170: remove fast channel change feature
Marco Fonseca reported a issue with his carl9170 device: "I'm seeing a problem with the carl driver. If I change channels repeatedly on the 2.4ghz band, monitoring (e.g. tcpdump) will eventually halt. I've seen this on various versions of the carl driver/firmware (both from 1.9.4 to 1.9.7)" <http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=136381302428113> The culprit was identified as "fast channel change feature" which according to Adrian Chadd is: "... notoriously unreliable and really only fully debugged on some very later chips." <http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=136416984531380> Therefore, this patch removes the fast channel change feature. The phy will now always have to go through a cold reset when changing channels, but it should no longer become deaf. Cc: Marco Fonseca <marco@tampabay.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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