mac80211: Fix rate reporting regression
Mattias Nissler's "clean up rate selection" patch incorrectly changes
the behavior of txrate setting in sta_info. This patch backs out parts
of the rate selection consolidation in order to fix this issue for now.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c
index 229b341..5081e28 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c
@@ -2017,6 +2017,7 @@
struct ieee80211_conf *conf = &local->hw.conf;
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
struct sta_info *sta;
+ u16 fc;
struct iwl4965_priv *priv = (struct iwl4965_priv *)priv_rate;
struct iwl4965_rate_scale_priv *lq;
@@ -2024,7 +2025,11 @@
sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
- if (!sta || !sta->rate_ctrl_priv) {
+ /* Send management frames and broadcast/multicast data using lowest
+ * rate. */
+ fc = le16_to_cpu(hdr->frame_control);
+ if (!ieee80211_is_data(fc) || is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) ||
+ !sta || !sta->rate_ctrl_priv) {
sel->rate = rate_lowest(local, local->oper_hw_mode, sta);
if (sta)
sta_info_put(sta);