From: Alexander Bondar Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:14:09 +0000 (+0300) Subject: mac80211: remove warning from ieee80211_beacon_loss X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3680^2~478^2~21^2^2~80^2~24 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a7da6ee0ea3443cd5111adffa80a3daba4bb8df;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git mac80211: remove warning from ieee80211_beacon_loss Currently, mac80211 assumes that connection monitor offload for BSS station implies that the device: - sends periodic keep alive packets to associated AP - monitors missed beacons - actively probes the AP in case of missed beacons In case of poor connection conditions it expects the function ieee80211_connection_loss() to be called by driver. However, some devices implement connection monitor offload excluding active AP probing. To allow them to call ieee80211_beacon_loss() cleanly, remove the warning there and thus allow them to use mac80211 for the AP probing even if connection monitor offload is supported. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bondar Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 43023f0db68c..c7860d0450dd 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -2215,7 +2215,6 @@ void ieee80211_beacon_loss(struct ieee80211_vif *vif) trace_api_beacon_loss(sdata); - WARN_ON(hw->flags & IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR); sdata->u.mgd.connection_loss = false; ieee80211_queue_work(hw, &sdata->u.mgd.beacon_connection_loss_work); }