From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:57:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: declare required extra tx headroom

ath9k inserts padding between the 802.11 header and the data area (to
align it). Since it didn't declare this extra required headroom, this
led to some nasty issues like randomly dropped packets in some setups.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
---

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
@@ -867,6 +867,7 @@ static void ath9k_set_hw_capab(struct at
 	hw->max_rate_tries = 10;
 	hw->sta_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_node);
 	hw->vif_data_size = sizeof(struct ath_vif);
+	hw->extra_tx_headroom = 4;
 
 	hw->wiphy->available_antennas_rx = BIT(ah->caps.max_rxchains) - 1;
 	hw->wiphy->available_antennas_tx = BIT(ah->caps.max_txchains) - 1;