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Julius Niedworok committed 276d9e82e06
mac80211: debugfs option to force TX status frames At Technical University of Munich we use MAC 802.11 TX status frames to perform several measurements in MAC 802.11 setups. With ath based drivers this was possible until commit d94a461d7a7df6 ("ath9k: use ieee80211_tx_status_noskb where possible") as the driver ignored the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS flag and always delivered tx_status frames. Since that commit, this behavior was changed and the driver now adheres to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS. Due to performance reasons, IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS is not set for data frames from interfaces in managed mode. Hence, frames that are sent from a managed mode interface do never deliver tx_status frames. This remains true even if a monitor mode interface (the measurement interface) is added to the same ieee80211 physical device. Thus, there is no possibility for receiving tx_status frames for frames sent on an interface in managed mode, if the driver adheres to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS. In order to force delivery of tx_status frames for research and debugging purposes, implement a debugfs option force_tx_status for ieee80211 physical devices. When this option is set for a physical device, IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS is enabled in all packets sent from that device. This option can be set via /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/<dev>/force_tx_status. The default is disabled. Co-developed-by: Charlie Groh <ga58taw@mytum.de> Signed-off-by: Charlie Groh <ga58taw@mytum.de> Signed-off-by: Julius Niedworok <julius.n@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>