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mac80211: Send the management frame at requested rate

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Whenever the scan request or tx_mgmt is requesting not to
use CCK rate for managemet frames through
NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE attribute, then mac80211 should
select appropriate least non-CCK rate. This could help to
send P2P probes and P2P action frames at non 11b rates
without diabling 11b rates globally.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-09-25 14:53:31 +05:30
committed by John W. Linville
parent e9f935e3e8
commit aad14ceb45
8 changed files with 46 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -1897,6 +1897,9 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_TX_OFFCHAN;
}
if (no_cck)
flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_CCK_RATE;
if (is_offchan && !offchan)
return -EBUSY;