2017-02-17 20:54:14

by Gucea Doru

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Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/2 v2] ath9k_htc: Adjust beacon timers for power save

From: Doru Gucea <[email protected]>

Each time we receive a beacon we need to adjust the hardware
timers for next DTIM and next TBTT.

Before this commit, the Power Save behaviour was incorrect.
The scenario was:
- STA receives a beacon from AP with TIM unset;
- mac80211 layers puts the chip to sleep;
- chip is woken up by mac80211's software timer reponsible for
beacon miss after 7 * beacon_interval period.

Normally the chip should sleep at most DTIM period. This commit
configures hardware timers for waking up the chip correctly.

More details on the wiki:
https://github.com/doru91/linux-stable/wiki/Single-Interface-Power-Save

Changelog

v1:
* moved beacon configuration call in the ath9k_htc driver

Signed-off-by: Doru Gucea <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
index a553c91..5403399 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
@@ -1518,6 +1518,10 @@ static void ath9k_htc_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
ath9k_htc_ps_wakeup(priv);

+ /* adjust beacon timers */
+ if (changed && BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INFO)
+ ath9k_htc_beacon_config(priv, vif);
+
if (changed & BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC) {
ath_dbg(common, CONFIG, "BSS Changed ASSOC %d\n",
bss_conf->assoc);
--
1.9.1