mac80211: Send the management frame at requested rate

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>
This commit is contained in:
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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@@ -899,14 +899,18 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_build_probe_req(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
void ieee80211_send_probe_req(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *dst,
const u8 *ssid, size_t ssid_len,
const u8 *ie, size_t ie_len,
u32 ratemask, bool directed)
u32 ratemask, bool directed, bool no_cck)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
skb = ieee80211_build_probe_req(sdata, dst, ratemask, ssid, ssid_len,
ie, ie_len, directed);
if (skb)
if (skb) {
if (no_cck)
IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->flags |=
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_CCK_RATE;
ieee80211_tx_skb(sdata, skb);
}
}
u32 ieee80211_sta_get_rates(struct ieee80211_local *local,