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Allow MLME frames to be sent without expecting an ACK (no retries)
authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:02:05 +0000 (19:02 +0200)
committerJouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:02:05 +0000 (19:02 +0200)
commit8cfa3527e174f93e6d14b0cf1197fd02cb9e2ded
treebecf35507bb8f3316a344a8c4771e69f1d1244ae
parent3f56f3a496a51efe9ee528098968549e14fe9184
Allow MLME frames to be sent without expecting an ACK (no retries)

In some situations it might be benefical to send a unicast frame without
the need for getting it ACKed (probe responses for example). In order to
achieve this add a new noack parameter to the drivers send_mlme callback
that can be used to advise the driver to not wait for an ACK for this
frame.

Signed-hostap: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
13 files changed:
hostapd/ctrl_iface.c
src/ap/ap_drv_ops.c
src/ap/ap_drv_ops.h
src/ap/beacon.c
src/ap/ieee802_11.c
src/ap/ieee802_11_shared.c
src/ap/wmm.c
src/ap/wpa_auth_glue.c
src/drivers/driver.h
src/drivers/driver_hostap.c
src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
src/drivers/driver_test.c
wpa_supplicant/driver_i.h