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mac80211: Send the management frame at requested rate

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Whenever the scan request or tx_mgmt is requesting not to
use CCK rate for managemet frames through
NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE attribute, then mac80211 should
select appropriate least non-CCK rate. This could help to
send P2P probes and P2P action frames at non 11b rates
without diabling 11b rates globally.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Rajkumar Manoharan
2011-09-25 14:53:31 +05:30
committed by John W. Linville
parent e9f935e3e8
commit aad14ceb45
8 changed files with 46 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -363,6 +363,9 @@ struct ieee80211_bss_conf {
* @IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_TKIP_MIC_FAILURE: Marks this packet to be used for TKIP
* testing. It will be sent out with incorrect Michael MIC key to allow
* TKIP countermeasures to be tested.
* @IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_CCK_RATE: This frame will be sent at non CCK rate.
* This flag is actually used for management frame especially for P2P
* frames not being sent at CCK rate in 2GHz band.
*
* Note: If you have to add new flags to the enumeration, then don't
* forget to update %IEEE80211_TX_TEMPORARY_FLAGS when necessary.
@@ -393,6 +396,7 @@ enum mac80211_tx_control_flags {
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_STBC = BIT(23) | BIT(24),
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_TX_OFFCHAN = BIT(25),
IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_TKIP_MIC_FAILURE = BIT(26),
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_CCK_RATE = BIT(27),
};
#define IEEE80211_TX_CTL_STBC_SHIFT 23