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To support stations in power saving mode, AP should notify stations that there are frames buffered at the AP via TIM during beacons. Driver used to transmit identical beacons that were downloaded to hardware during the initiation phase. This beacon will become obsolete over time. If the beacon does not contain sufficient information, station would not be able to percept that there is data to receive. Hence it won't wake up and start the PS-poll procedure, this could lead to timeout and/or lost data segments. In order to resolve this issue, driver will now download beacon to hardware whenever the content is updated. Enable hardware to update dtim_count for more efficiency, this reduces the overhead of downloading beacon at every beacon interval since most of the time only the dtim_count needs to be updated. Change queue mapping for broadcast/multicast frames to high queue, so these frames can be prioritized and sent when dtim_count is zero. Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220407095858.46807-4-pkshih@realtek.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.