iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self

commit 43d826ca5979927131685cc2092c7ce862cb91cd upstream.

We should always prefer to use full RTS protection. Using
CTS to self gives a meaningless improvement, but this flow
is much harder for the firmware which is likely to have
issues with it.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
index cd1ad00191857e962f74a45c0bbcfe56e1591514..ca17e4c9eca27eccfa5bfe268a1418e3b8f25d9d 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c
@@ -1072,13 +1072,6 @@ int iwlagn_commit_rxon(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_rxon_context *ctx)
        /* recalculate basic rates */
        iwl_calc_basic_rates(priv, ctx);
 
-       /*
-        * force CTS-to-self frames protection if RTS-CTS is not preferred
-        * one aggregation protection method
-        */
-       if (!priv->hw_params.use_rts_for_aggregation)
-               ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-
        if ((ctx->vif && ctx->vif->bss_conf.use_short_slot) ||
            !(ctx->staging.flags & RXON_FLG_BAND_24G_MSK))
                ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SHORT_SLOT_MSK;
@@ -1484,11 +1477,6 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        else
                ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_TGG_PROTECT_MSK;
 
-       if (bss_conf->use_cts_prot)
-               ctx->staging.flags |= RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-       else
-               ctx->staging.flags &= ~RXON_FLG_SELF_CTS_EN;
-
        memcpy(ctx->staging.bssid_addr, bss_conf->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
 
        if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||