cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACK
For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK to
avoid retransmissions if the station that sent the probe is
already on the next channel, so allow userspace to request
not caring about the ACK with a new nl80211 flag.
Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function
prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a
few lines of code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/wireless/mlme.c b/net/wireless/mlme.c
index 34891e0..6c1bafd 100644
--- a/net/wireless/mlme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/mlme.c
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@
enum nl80211_channel_type channel_type,
bool channel_type_valid, unsigned int wait,
const u8 *buf, size_t len, bool no_cck,
- u64 *cookie)
+ bool dont_wait_for_ack, u64 *cookie)
{
struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt;
@@ -995,7 +995,8 @@
/* Transmit the Action frame as requested by user space */
return rdev->ops->mgmt_tx(&rdev->wiphy, dev, chan, offchan,
channel_type, channel_type_valid,
- wait, buf, len, no_cck, cookie);
+ wait, buf, len, no_cck, dont_wait_for_ack,
+ cookie);
}
bool cfg80211_rx_mgmt(struct net_device *dev, int freq, const u8 *buf,