This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self
to the 3.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
iwlwifi-dvm-don-t-enable-cts-to-self.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:12:30 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd upstream.
We should always prefer to use full RTS protection. Using
CTS to self gives a meaningless improvement, but this flow
is much harder for the firmware which is likely to have
issues with it.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
@@ -1068,13 +1068,6 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv *
/* recalculate basic rates */
iwl_calc_basic_rates(priv, ctx);
- /*
- * force CTS-to-self frames protection if RTS-CTS is not preferred
- * one aggregation protection method
- */
- if (!priv->hw_params.use_rts_for_aggregation)
- ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-
if ((ctx->vif && ctx->vif->bss_conf.use_short_slot) ||
!(ctx->staging.flags & RXON_FLG_BAND_24G_MSK))
ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SHORT_SLOT_MSK;
@@ -1480,11 +1473,6 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee
else
ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK;
- if (bss_conf->use_cts_prot)
- ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
- else
- ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-
memcpy(ctx->staging.bssid_addr, bss_conf->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/iwlwifi-update-the-7265-series-hw-ids.patch
queue-3.15/iwlwifi-dvm-don-t-enable-cts-to-self.patch
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