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mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave

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Because DTIM information is required for powersave
but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon
before enabling powersave, and change the way the
information is conveyed to the driver accordingly.

mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but
requires the DTIM period in a different way; after
talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do
the parsing itself in the finalize_join work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg
2010-01-26 14:19:52 +01:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent c21dbf9214
commit 56007a028c
7 changed files with 47 additions and 35 deletions
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@@ -111,10 +111,6 @@ ieee80211_bss_info_update(struct ieee80211_local *local,
bss->dtim_period = tim_ie->dtim_period;
}
/* set default value for buggy AP/no TIM element */
if (bss->dtim_period == 0)
bss->dtim_period = 1;
bss->supp_rates_len = 0;
if (elems->supp_rates) {
clen = IEEE80211_MAX_SUPP_RATES - bss->supp_rates_len;