Create a new STA when requested to unicast a frame to an unknown station.
This is needed to make ratecontrol work in the case where data is sent
from sta A to B and sta B never replies. Currently, sta B will stay unknown
to mac80211 and the default rate will always be used.
Signed-off-by: Bertold Van den Bergh <bertold.vandenbergh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/tx.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 84e0e8c..eb8dba6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1209,6 +1209,10 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
} else
tx->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST;
+ if ((sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB) && (!tx->sta) &&
+ (tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST))
+ ieee80211_ocb_rx_no_sta(sdata, NULL, hdr->addr1, 0);
+
if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DONTFRAG)) {
if (!(tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST) ||
skb->len + FCS_LEN <= local->hw.wiphy->frag_threshold ||
--
1.9.1
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