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cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not wait for ACK
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:18:21 +0000 (11:18 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2011 21:13:54 +0000 (16:13 -0500)
commit1f441d01c78c503d24345b34180eceefcc98ea5a
tree5639065f2b0bfe4cb7389a75e274bc8a53efd75f
parentade31c4901c9f4486c15a600d17bb9027c029916
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>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
include/linux/nl80211.h
include/net/cfg80211.h
net/mac80211/cfg.c
net/wireless/core.h
net/wireless/mlme.c
net/wireless/nl80211.c