Commit ee1f6681 authored Jan 10, 2013 by Chun-Yeow Yeoh Committed by Johannes Berg Jan 16, 2013

mac80211: allow disable power save in mesh



Allow mesh interface to disable the power save which is by default
turn on in certain chipset. Testing with 2 units of ZCN-1523H-5-16
featuring AR9280 chipset which have power save enabled by default.
Constant reset if the average signal of the peer mesh STA is below
-80 dBm and power save is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent 8f21b0ad

net/mac80211/cfg.c

+2 −1

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		@@ -2232,7 +2232,8 @@ static int ieee80211_set_power_mgmt(struct wiphy wiphy, struct net_device dev,
		struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
		struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);

		if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
		if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
		sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT)
		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

		if (!(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS))

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