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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-08-05 18:31:46 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-15 08:10:33 -0700
commit66f3d999759fd703bf43acc0bd58b422701c77b4 (patch)
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iwlwifi: disable greenfield transmissions as a workaround
commit 50e2a30cf6fcaeb2d27360ba614dd169a10041c5 upstream. There's a bug that causes the rate scaling to get stuck when it has to use single-stream rates with a peer that can do GF and SGI; the two are incompatible so we can't use them together, but that causes the algorithm to not work at all, it always rejects updates. Disable greenfield for now to prevent that problem. Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Tested-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
index da2be3e09ee..7db5d45da23 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c
@@ -709,11 +709,14 @@ static int rs_toggle_antenna(u32 valid_ant, u32 *rate_n_flags,
*/
static bool rs_use_green(struct ieee80211_sta *sta)
{
- struct iwl_station_priv *sta_priv = (void *)sta->drv_priv;
- struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx = sta_priv->ctx;
-
- return (sta->ht_cap.cap & IEEE80211_HT_CAP_GRN_FLD) &&
- !(ctx->ht.non_gf_sta_present);
+ /*
+ * There's a bug somewhere in this code that causes the
+ * scaling to get stuck because GF+SGI can't be combined
+ * in SISO rates. Until we find that bug, disable GF, it
+ * has only limited benefit and we still interoperate with
+ * GF APs since we can always receive GF transmissions.
+ */
+ return false;
}
/**