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wil6210: do not set IE's for beacon

On the DMG band, there is no 'normal' beacon frame.
Instead, transmitted is short 'DMG beacon' frame, that do not include IE's
So, beacon IE's are not relevant for the DMG band.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Vladimir Kondratiev 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 7 2
      drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c

+ 7 - 2
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c

@@ -445,8 +445,13 @@ static int wil_cfg80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy,
 
 	/* IE's */
 	/* bcon 'head IE's are not relevant for 60g band */
-	wmi_set_ie(wil, WMI_FRAME_BEACON, bcon->beacon_ies_len,
-		   bcon->beacon_ies);
+	/*
+	 * FW do not form regular beacon, so bcon IE's are not set
+	 * For the DMG bcon, when it will be supported, bcon IE's will
+	 * be reused; add something like:
+	 * wmi_set_ie(wil, WMI_FRAME_BEACON, bcon->beacon_ies_len,
+	 * bcon->beacon_ies);
+	 */
 	wmi_set_ie(wil, WMI_FRAME_PROBE_RESP, bcon->proberesp_ies_len,
 		   bcon->proberesp_ies);
 	wmi_set_ie(wil, WMI_FRAME_ASSOC_RESP, bcon->assocresp_ies_len,