Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix n-band association problem

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 14:02 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> From: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
> 
> There are two structures named wmm_info and wmm_param, they are used while
> parsing the beacon frame. (Check the function ieee802_11_parse_elems).
> Certain APs like D-link does not set the fifth bit in WMM IE.
> While sending the association request to n-only ap it checks for wmm_ie.
> If it is set then only ieee80211_ht_cap is sent during association request.
> So n-only association fails.
> And this patch fixes this problem by copying the wmm_info to wmm_ie,
> which enables the "wmm" flag in iee80211_send_assoc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>

Ack, thanks for the update.

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> This problem is also present in 2.6.25. This patch does apply to
> 2.6.25-rc9 after changing the filename to be patched to ieee80211_sta.c

Do we want this for -stable then?

johannes

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