pspolled data frames need be able to bypass the firmware's powersave filter.
---
I'm not sure about the mac80211 change...
But without it, all frames send after the pspoll request by the station
are requeued into sta->tx_filtered.
The reason:
the firmware rejected them (tx_status) because the station is blacklisted.
---
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 3fb04a8..d1fcfef 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -409,7 +409,8 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
sta->sta.addr);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_PS_DEBUG */
- clear_sta_flags(sta, WLAN_STA_PSPOLL);
+ if (test_and_clear_sta_flags(sta, WLAN_STA_PSPOLL))
+ info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
return TX_CONTINUE;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c
index adb812b..d80f2ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c
@@ -1650,7 +1650,8 @@ static int p54_tx_fill(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (info->control.sta)
*aid = info->control.sta->aid;
- else
+
+ if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT)
*flags |= P54_HDR_FLAG_DATA_OUT_NOCANCEL;
break;
}