[PATCH 2/2] ath10k: Fix sending NULL/ Qos NULL data frames for QCA99X0 and later

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Thu Jun 23 10:12:01 PDT 2016


On 06/23/2016 09:40 AM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed at qti.qualcomm.com>
>
> For chipsets like QCA99X0, IPQ4019 and later we are not getting proper
> NULL func status (always acked/successs !!) when hostapd does a
> PROBE_CLIENT via nullfunc frames when the station is powered off
> abruptly (inactive timer probes client via null func after the inactive
> time reaches beyond the threshold). Fix this by disabling the workaround
> (getting the ACK status of NULL func frames by sending via HTT mgmt-tx
>   path) introduced by the change ("ath10k: fix beacon loss handling ")
> for QCA99X0 and later chipsets. The normal tx path provides the proper
> ACK status for NULL data frames. As of now disable this workaround for
> chipsets QCA99X0 and later, once the 10.1 firmware is obselete we can
> completely get rid of this workaround for all the chipsets

Did you see my fix for the tx-status that Kalle posted about recently?
That fixed my problem with 9980, but I normally test status with tx over
the htt mgt path instead of wmi path, so possibly that makes a difference.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
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