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mac80211: fix power saving clients handling in iwlwifi

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iwlwifi now supports RSS and can't let mac80211 track the
PS state based on the Rx frames since they can come out of
order. iwlwifi is now advertising AP_LINK_PS, and uses
explicit notifications to teach mac80211 about the PS state
of the stations and the PS poll / uAPSD trigger frames
coming our way from the peers.

Because of that, the TIM stopped being maintained in
mac80211. I tried to fix this in commit c68df2e7be0c
("mac80211: allow using AP_LINK_PS with mac80211-generated TIM IE")
but that was later reverted by Felix in commit 6c18a6b4e799
("Revert "mac80211: allow using AP_LINK_PS with mac80211-generated TIM IE")
since it broke drivers that do not implement set_tim.

Since none of the drivers that set AP_LINK_PS have the
set_tim() handler set besides iwlwifi, I can bail out in
__sta_info_recalc_tim if AP_LINK_PS AND .set_tim is not
implemented.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Emmanuel Grumbach 2017-02-20 14:24:36 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent fff654b43e
commit c1bc62d729
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ static void __sta_info_recalc_tim(struct sta_info *sta, bool ignore_pending)
}
/* No need to do anything if the driver does all */
if (ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, AP_LINK_PS))
if (ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, AP_LINK_PS) && !local->ops->set_tim)
return;
if (sta->dead)