iwlwifi: mvm: don't delay the association until after beacon

If we haven't heard a beacon before we associate we can
still start the association process and set the MAC in
the firmware to associated only after having received a
beacon with DTIM period by reacting to the new change
flag (BSS_CHANGED_DTIM_PERIOD) from mac80211.

This reduces the association time in these cases.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg
2013-01-24 23:48:23 +01:00
parent 739e42f4f3
commit 210a544e78
3 changed files with 15 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -584,7 +584,11 @@ static void iwl_mvm_mac_ctxt_cmd_fill_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
struct iwl_mac_data_sta *ctxt_sta)
{
ctxt_sta->is_assoc = cpu_to_le32(vif->bss_conf.assoc ? 1 : 0);
/* We need the dtim_period to set the MAC as associated */
if (vif->bss_conf.assoc && vif->bss_conf.dtim_period)
ctxt_sta->is_assoc = cpu_to_le32(1);
else
ctxt_sta->is_assoc = cpu_to_le32(0);
ctxt_sta->bi = cpu_to_le32(vif->bss_conf.beacon_int);
ctxt_sta->bi_reciprocal =