mac80211: do not send pspoll when powersave is disabled
authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:20:36 +0000 (05:50 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 9 Apr 2012 20:05:54 +0000 (16:05 -0400)
commit6f0756a38fc4cf016070f218bf78930b4c1f9a0f
tree7059244cf8cf0c35588e81e9ccf5b9b6b40e3e53
parent01e189182d62d6ee3603233fc88f9235e9830b92
mac80211: do not send pspoll when powersave is disabled

There might be latency at AP side to update TIM IE which could cause the
station to send pspoll frame even after the wakeup. If the powersave is
disabled, the nullfunc notification alone is sufficient to receive
frames from the AP. And if the pspoll frame was already sent, no need to
resend the frame till it was acked by AP.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/mlme.c