On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 19:54 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Cooked monitor interfaces cannot currently receive Probe Request
> frames when the interface is in station mode. However, we do not
> process Probe Request frames internally in the station MLME, so there
> is no point in queueing the frame here. Remove Probe Request frames
> from the queued frame list to allow cooked monitor interfaces to
> receive these frames.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
It's also just unnecessary overhead to put them on the list and process
them by freeing :)
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> net/mac80211/mlme.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- uml.orig/net/mac80211/mlme.c 2009-11-13 16:58:27.000000000 +0200
> +++ uml/net/mac80211/mlme.c 2009-11-13 16:59:20.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1898,7 +1898,6 @@ ieee80211_rx_result ieee80211_sta_rx_mgm
> fc = le16_to_cpu(mgmt->frame_control);
>
> switch (fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_STYPE) {
> - case IEEE80211_STYPE_PROBE_REQ:
> case IEEE80211_STYPE_PROBE_RESP:
> case IEEE80211_STYPE_BEACON:
> case IEEE80211_STYPE_AUTH:
>
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