Create a new STA when requested to unicast a frame to an unknown station. This is needed to make ratecontrol work in the case where data is sent from sta A to B and sta B never replies. Currently, sta B will stay unknown to mac80211 and the default rate will always be used.
Signed-off-by: Bertold Van den Bergh <[email protected]> --- net/mac80211/tx.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c index 84e0e8c..eb8dba6 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c @@ -1209,6 +1209,10 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, } else tx->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST; + if ((sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_OCB) && (!tx->sta) && + (tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST)) + ieee80211_ocb_rx_no_sta(sdata, NULL, hdr->addr1, 0); + if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DONTFRAG)) { if (!(tx->flags & IEEE80211_TX_UNICAST) || skb->len + FCS_LEN <= local->hw.wiphy->frag_threshold || -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
