linux/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170
Christian Lamparter c9122c0d63 carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption
This patch adds an alternative tx status path
for BlockAck Requests as the hardware doesn't
recognize that a BlockAck Requests is usually
acked with a BlockAck and not a legacy ACK.

Without this patch, the stack would constantly
resent old and stale BARs. So, depending on the
receiver stack, this could lead to:

 - "stuck" ba sessions and package loss, as the
   stale BAR would reset the sequence each time.

 - lots of reorder releases.

 - ...

Reported-by: Sean Patrick Santos <quantheory@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mikołaj Kuligowski <mikolaj.q@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Per-Erik Westerberg <per-erik.westerberg@bredband.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
..
carl9170.h carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
cmd.c carl9170: Use do_div for 64-bit division to fix 32-bit kernels 2011-08-26 10:47:58 -04:00
cmd.h wireless: Remove unnecessary ; from while (0) macros 2012-04-11 16:23:56 -04:00
debug.c simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open() 2012-04-05 15:25:50 -07:00
debug.h
eeprom.h
fw.c carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
fwcmd.h carl9170: import updated firmware headers 2011-08-24 14:41:42 -04:00
fwdesc.h carl9170: import 1.9.6 firmware headers 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
hw.h carl9170 firmware: update firmware headers 2011-07-18 14:29:43 -04:00
Kconfig carl9170: export HW random number generator 2011-08-24 14:41:42 -04:00
led.c carl9170: fix formatting issues found by checkpatch 2011-07-15 13:38:34 -04:00
mac.c carl9170: allow users to lower output power level 2012-01-27 14:56:57 -05:00
main.c carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
Makefile
phy.c carl9170: allow users to lower output power level 2012-01-27 14:56:57 -05:00
phy.h
rx.c carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
tx.c carl9170: fix HT peer BA session corruption 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
usb.c USB: Disable hub-initiated LPM for comms devices. 2012-05-18 15:42:55 -07:00
version.h carl9170: import 1.9.6 firmware headers 2012-07-11 15:38:26 -04:00
wlan.h carl9170: import 1.9.4 firmware headers 2011-07-05 15:26:51 -04:00