mac80211: force off channel transmission for public action frames

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Currently while associated to an AP and sending a (public) action
frame to a different AP on the same channel, the action frame will
be sent like a regular tx frame without going off channel.

When power save is enabled this can cause problems, since the device
can go into power save and miss the response to the action frame
that is sent by the other AP.

Force off-channel transmission to avoid this issue in case
- HW offchannel is used,
- the user didn't forbid transmitting frames off channel
- the frame is not sent to the AP that we are associated with
  (if it is we assume the response would be bufferable)

Signed-off-by: Matti Gottlieb <matti.gottlieb@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
[reword commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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Matti Gottlieb 2015-04-20 22:54:14 +03:00 • committed by Johannes Berg

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