2012-03-15 00:20:06

by Rajkumar Manoharan

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Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: do not send pspoll when powersave is disabled

There might be latency at AP side to update TIM IE which could cause the
station to send pspoll frame even after the wakeup. If the powersave is
disabled, the nullfunc notification alone is sufficient to receive
frames from the AP. And if the pspoll frame was already sent, no need to
resend the frame till it was acked by AP.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <[email protected]>
---
net/mac80211/mlme.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 39c1393..355a5e7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2472,7 +2472,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
ieee80211_hw_config(local,
IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS);
ieee80211_send_nullfunc(local, sdata, 0);
- } else {
+ } else if (!local->pspolling && sdata->u.mgd.powersave) {
local->pspolling = true;

/*
--
1.7.9.4