| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.10 12/56] iwlwifi: dvm: dont enable CTS to self | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:02:05 -0700 |
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3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
commit 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd upstream.
We should always prefer to use full RTS protection. Using CTS to self gives a meaningless improvement, but this flow is much harder for the firmware which is likely to have issues with it.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c @@ -1072,13 +1072,6 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv * /* recalculate basic rates */ iwl_calc_basic_rates(priv, ctx); - /* - * force CTS-to-self frames protection if RTS-CTS is not preferred - * one aggregation protection method - */ - if (!priv->hw_params.use_rts_for_aggregation) - ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN; - if ((ctx->vif && ctx->vif->bss_conf.use_short_slot) || !(ctx->staging.flags & RXON_FLG_BAND_24G_MSK)) ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SHORT_SLOT_MSK; @@ -1484,11 +1477,6 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee else ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK; - if (bss_conf->use_cts_prot) - ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN; - else - ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN; - memcpy(ctx->staging.bssid_addr, bss_conf->bssid, ETH_ALEN); if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
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