Commit f69b9c79 authored Mar 15, 2012 by Rajkumar Manoharan Committed by John W. Linville Apr 09, 2012

mac80211: flush to get the tx status of nullfunc frame immediately



Sometimes the probe frame (nullfunc) is stuck at the hw queue. so that
the mac80211 terminates the connection as it wont see the tx status.
Instead of waiting for long period for ack status, lets call flush
to get nullfunc status immediately. It also helps to send the nullfunc
till max tries reached.

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

parent 6f0756a3

net/mac80211/mlme.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -1575,6 +1575,8 @@ static void ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap_send(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
		ifmgd->probe_send_count++;
		ifmgd->probe_timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(probe_wait_ms);
		run_again(ifmgd, ifmgd->probe_timeout);
		if (sdata->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS)
		drv_flush(sdata->local, false);
		}

		static void ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,

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