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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)
commitcce3f76290a03b8eb529dd8f8c8b4d73960082db
tree5639065f2b0bfe4cb7389a75e274bc8a53efd75f
parent942f5d8b0fdf3ddcb8f245d5814d5ec960571ff6
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