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cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACK

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For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to
avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is
already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request
not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag.

Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function
prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a
few lines of code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg
2011-11-04 11:18:21 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent e7f4a940bb
commit e247bd9068
7 changed files with 46 additions and 23 deletions
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@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ int cfg80211_mlme_mgmt_tx(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type,
bool channel_type_valid, unsigned int wait,
const u8 *buf, size_t len, bool no_cck,
u64 *cookie)
bool dont_wait_for_ack, u64 *cookie)
{
struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt;
@@ -995,7 +995,8 @@ int cfg80211_mlme_mgmt_tx(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
/* Transmit the Action frame as requested by user space */
return rdev->ops->mgmt_tx(&rdev->wiphy, dev, chan, offchan,
channel_type, channel_type_valid,
wait, buf, len, no_cck, cookie);
wait, buf, len, no_cck, dont_wait_for_ack,
cookie);
}
bool cfg80211_rx_mgmt(struct net_device *dev, int freq, const u8 *buf,