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[net80211] add support for drivers to disable sending NULL data frames
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Authored by adrian on Aug 31 2025, 3:07 AM.
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Summary

net80211 has various places where null data / null qos data frames
are sent. However plenty of NICs shouldn't be sending them from
net80211 and it may even upset their 802.11n window / sequence number
tracking.

So add support here.

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Event Timeline

bz added a subscriber: bz.
bz added inline comments.
sys/net80211/ieee80211_output.c
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style.9: if ((ic->ic_flags_ext & IEEE80211_FEXT_NO_NULLDATA) != 0)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 1 2025, 1:17 AM