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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: check fast-xmit on station change

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On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 14:13 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> Drivers with fast-xmit (e.g. ath10k) running in
> AP_VLAN setups would fail to communicate with
> connected 4addr stations.
> 
> The reason was when new station associates it
> first goes into master AP interface. It is not
> until later that a dedicated AP_VLAN is created
> for it and the station itself is moved there.
> After that Tx directed at the station should use
> 4addr header. However fast-xmit wasn't
> recalculated and 3addr header remained to be used.
> This in turn caused the connected 4addr stations
> to drop packets coming from the AP until some
> other event would cause fast-xmit to recalculate
> for that station (which could never come).

Applied.

johannes

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