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| author | Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> | 2012-07-07 21:13:59 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -0400 |
| commit | c9122c0d63a50bab0a97dc936a38c0f921b6930e (patch) | |
| tree | 7263d06049fc2a21971e363557f7bdc17a26f4ad /drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c | |
| parent | 4519a7433835f1a8dda242ad508233fcc5963545 (diff) | |
carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption
This patch adds an alternative tx status path
for BlockAck Requests as the hardware doesn't
recognize that a BlockAck Requests is usually
acked with a BlockAck and not a legacy ACK.
Without this patch, the stack would constantly
resent old and stale BARs. So, depending on the
receiver stack, this could lead to:
- "stuck" ba sessions and package loss, as the
stale BAR would reset the sequence each time.
- lots of reorder releases.
- ...
Reported-by: Sean Patrick Santos <quantheory@gmail.com>
Reported-by: MikoĊaj Kuligowski <mikolaj.q@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Per-Erik Westerberg <per-erik.westerberg@bredband.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c index 5c73c03872f..c5ca6f1f583 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c @@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ static int carl9170_fw(struct ar9170 *ar, const __u8 *data, size_t len) if (SUPP(CARL9170FW_WOL)) device_set_wakeup_enable(&ar->udev->dev, true); + if (SUPP(CARL9170FW_RX_BA_FILTER)) + ar->fw.ba_filter = true; + if_comb_types = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT); |