From 4e3c44207f90500f65a3858d344b4ff3c63ea765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amitkumar Karwar Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:51:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: put multicast/broadcast packets to the same RA For ad-hoc mode, RA is created for each peer connected. In case of multicast traffic new RA will be created for each multicast address. While processing Tx packets we have to go through this RA list. We can avoid some RA nodes by sharing same RA for both multicast and broadcast packets. Therefore "memset(0xff)" is used to treat multicast packet as broadcast one while choosing RA. Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c index 67b2d0b..69e260b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c @@ -634,6 +634,8 @@ mwifiex_wmm_add_buf_txqueue(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter, ra_list = NULL; } else { memcpy(ra, skb->data, ETH_ALEN); + if (ra[0] & 0x01) + memset(ra, 0xff, ETH_ALEN); ra_list = mwifiex_wmm_get_queue_raptr(priv, tid_down, ra); } -- 2.7.4