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From 52a192362932f333a7ebafd581c4d9b81da2fec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 13:25:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "rt2800: use TXOP_BACKOFF for probe frames"

This reverts commit fb47ada8dc3c30c8e7b415da155742b49536c61e.

In some situations when we set TXOP_BACKOFF, the probe frame is
not sent at all. What it worse then sending probe frame as part
of AMPDU and can degrade 11n performance to 11g rates.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
@@ -372,16 +372,15 @@ static void rt2x00queue_create_tx_descri
 
        /*
         * Determine IFS values
-        * - Use TXOP_BACKOFF for probe and management frames except beacons
+        * - Use TXOP_BACKOFF for management frames except beacons
         * - Use TXOP_SIFS for fragment bursts
         * - Use TXOP_HTTXOP for everything else
         *
         * Note: rt2800 devices won't use CTS protection (if used)
         * for frames not transmitted with TXOP_HTTXOP
         */
-       if ((ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) &&
-            !ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control)) ||
-           (tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_RATE_CTRL_PROBE))
+       if (ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) &&
+           !ieee80211_is_beacon(hdr->frame_control))
                txdesc->u.ht.txop = TXOP_BACKOFF;
        else if (!(tx_info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_FIRST_FRAGMENT))
                txdesc->u.ht.txop = TXOP_SIFS;
-- 
2.17.1


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