Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Vijayakumar Durai <[email protected]>
> 
> Currently rt2x00 devices retransmit the management frames with
> incremented sequence number if hardware is assigning the sequence.
> 
> This is HW bug fixed already for non-QOS data frames, but it should
> be fixed for management frames except beacon.
> 
> Without fix retransmitted frames have wrong SN:
> 
>  AlphaNet_e8:fb:36 Vivotek_52:31:51 Authentication, SN=1648, FN=0, 
> Flags=........C Frame is not being retransmitted 1648 1
>  AlphaNet_e8:fb:36 Vivotek_52:31:51 Authentication, SN=1649, FN=0, 
> Flags=....R...C Frame is being retransmitted 1649 1
>  AlphaNet_e8:fb:36 Vivotek_52:31:51 Authentication, SN=1650, FN=0, 
> Flags=....R...C Frame is being retransmitted 1650 1
> 
> With the fix SN stays correctly the same:
> 
>  88:6a:e3:e8:f9:a2 8c:f5:a3:88:76:87 Authentication, SN=1450, FN=0, 
> Flags=........C
>  88:6a:e3:e8:f9:a2 8c:f5:a3:88:76:87 Authentication, SN=1450, FN=0, 
> Flags=....R...C
>  88:6a:e3:e8:f9:a2 8c:f5:a3:88:76:87 Authentication, SN=1450, FN=0, 
> Flags=....R...C
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Vijayakumar Durai <[email protected]>
> [sgruszka: simplify code, change comments and changelog]
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.

746ba11f1706 rt2x00: do not increment sequence number while re-transmitting

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10873171/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

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