From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
When connecting to an AP, we currently initialize the rate
control only after associating. Since we now use firmware
to assign rates to auth/assoc frames rather than using the
data in the station and the firmware doesn't know, they're
transmitted using low mandatory rates. However, if the AP
advertised only higher supported rates we want to use them
to be nicer (it still must receive mandatory rates though),
so send the information to the firmware earlier to have it
know about it and be able to use it.
Fixes: 499d02790495 ("wifi: iwlwifi: Use FW rate for non-data frames")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index 85be483b9b7d..c82af4ac27ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -3688,6 +3688,19 @@ iwl_mvm_sta_state_notexist_to_none(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION && !sta->tdls)
mvmvif->ap_sta = sta;
+ /*
+ * Initialize the rates here already - this really tells
+ * the firmware only what the supported legacy rates are
+ * (may be) since it's initialized already from what the
+ * AP advertised in the beacon/probe response. This will
+ * allow the firmware to send auth/assoc frames with one
+ * of the supported rates already, rather than having to
+ * use a mandatory rate.
+ * If we're the AP, we'll just assume mandatory rates at
+ * this point, but we know nothing about the STA anyway.
+ */
+ iwl_mvm_rs_rate_init_all_links(mvm, vif, sta);
+
return 0;
}
--
2.34.1
