Patch "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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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 3.14-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-3.14 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-3.14/iwlwifi-update-the-7265-series-hw-ids.patch
queue-3.14/iwlwifi-dvm-don-t-enable-cts-to-self.patch
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