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)
commite247bd9068e3e86c3571147c128883596ace9d05
tree5639065f2b0bfe4cb7389a75e274bc8a53efd75f
parente7f4a940bb5eecd07cf0039e7d9201badc332ae0
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