[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5b8464db40a6cf94bd00d7c40adc249cc1ce73de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:12:30 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self

commit 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd upstream.

We should always prefer to use full RTS protection. Using
CTS to self gives a meaningless improvement, but this flow
is much harder for the firmware which is likely to have
issues with it.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
index d7ce2f1..6a5b759 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
@@ -1068,13 +1068,6 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx)
 	/* recalculate basic rates */
 	iwl_calc_basic_rates(priv, ctx);

-	/*
-	 * force CTS-to-self frames protection if RTS-CTS is not preferred
-	 * one aggregation protection method
-	 */
-	if (!priv->hw_params.use_rts_for_aggregation)
-		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-
 	if ((ctx->vif && ctx->vif->bss_conf.use_short_slot) ||
 	    !(ctx->staging.flags & RXON_FLG_BAND_24G_MSK))
 		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SHORT_SLOT_MSK;
@@ -1480,11 +1473,6 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	else
 		ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK;

-	if (bss_conf->use_cts_prot)
-		ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-	else
-		ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-
 	memcpy(ctx->staging.bssid_addr, bss_conf->bssid, ETH_ALEN);

 	if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
--
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