Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:56860 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752363AbYDQRFn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:05:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix n-band association problem Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:05:40 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20080417_180548_144551_F15549FF) In-Reply-To: <1208451520.4066.25.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1208379724-13568-1-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> (sfid-20080416_220312_598962_80DA4049) <1208451520.4066.25.camel@johannes.berg> From: "Chatre, Reinette" To: "Johannes Berg" Cc: , , , "Kolekar, Abhijeet" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On , Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 14:02 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote: >> From: Abhijeet Kolekar >> >> 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 >> Acked-by: Ron Rindjunsky > > Ack, thanks for the update. > >> --- >> >> 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? It will be great if this can make it into 2.6.25. Users who want to use their DLink N band APs will appreciate it. I am not sure about the status of submissions to it though as we are cutting it pretty close. Reinette