From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933493AbaHHVBQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:01:16 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:41438 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933134AbaHHUyE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 16:54:04 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.13 114/259] iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:38:57 -0700 Message-Id: <1407530482-4483-115-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1407530482-4483-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1407530482-4483-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.13 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.13.11.6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Emmanuel Grumbach 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 Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c index d7ce2f1..6a5b759 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c @@ -1068,13 +1068,6 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx) /* 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; @@ -1480,11 +1473,6 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, 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 || -- 1.9.1