# \[PATCH v2\] mac80211: Invoke TX LED in more code paths

- From: Bjorn Andersson \<hidden\>
- Date: 2017-05-27 21:59:33 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/05/5006671
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-wireless/2017/05/5006671/t.md

```text
ieee80211_tx_status() is only one of the possible ways a driver can
report a handled packet, some drivers call this for every packet while
others calls it rarely or never.

In order to invoke the TX LED in the non-status reporting cases this
patch pushes the call to ieee80211_led_tx() into
ieee80211_report_used_skb(), which is shared between the various code
paths.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <redacted>
---
 net/mac80211/status.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/status.c b/net/mac80211/status.c
index be47ac5cd8c8..a9fa6ee57e8f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/status.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/status.c
@@ -546,6 +546,8 @@ static void ieee80211_report_used_skb(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 		skb->wifi_acked_valid = 1;
 		skb->wifi_acked = acked;
 	}
+
+	ieee80211_led_tx(local);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -823,8 +825,6 @@ static void __ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 		}
 	}
 
-	ieee80211_led_tx(local);
-
 	/* SNMP counters
 	 * Fragments are passed to low-level drivers as separate skbs, so these
 	 * are actually fragments, not frames. Update frame counters only for
-- 
2.12.0
```