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authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2014-06-25 09:12:30 +0300
committerEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2014-07-03 14:59:38 +0300
commit43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd (patch)
treed35c82cb8eaa66001f9bf4be2d4f18a85677ee28 /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm
parente48393e8cf99f2b070b0a1c3d79411ccddcba2df (diff)
downloadlinux-43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd.tar.gz
iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self
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.

CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c12
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
index ed50de6362ed..6dc5dd3ced44 100644
--- 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 *priv, struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx)
 	/* 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 ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	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 ||