With a ath9k device I can see that:
iw phy phy0 interface add mesh0 type mp
ip link set mesh0 up
iw dev mesh0 scan
Will start a scan with the Power Management bit set in the Frame Control Field.
This is because we set this bit depending on the nonpeer_pm variable of the mesh
iface sdata and when there are no active links on the interface it remains to
NL80211_MESH_POWER_UNKNOWN.
As soon as links starts to be established, it wil switch to
NL80211_MESH_POWER_ACTIVE as it is the value set by befault on the per sta
nonpeer_pm field.
As we want no power save by default, (as expressed with the per sta ini values),
lets init it to the expected default value of NL80211_MESH_POWER_ACTIVE.
Also please note that we cannot change the default value from userspace prior to
establishing a link as using NL80211_CMD_SET_MESH_CONFIG will not work before
NL80211_CMD_JOIN_MESH has been issued. So too late for our initial scan.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande <[email protected]>
---
net/mac80211/mesh.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 3d4806b7ff6c..1d8aebd0eff7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -1792,6 +1792,7 @@ void ieee80211_mesh_init_sdata(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
ifmsh->last_preq = jiffies;
ifmsh->next_perr = jiffies;
ifmsh->csa_role = IEEE80211_MESH_CSA_ROLE_NONE;
+ ifmsh->nonpeer_pm = NL80211_MESH_POWER_ACTIVE;
/* Allocate all mesh structures when creating the first mesh interface. */
if (!mesh_allocated)
ieee80211s_init();
--
2.45.0