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mac80211: add U-APSD client support

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Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The
idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered
frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it
possible to save even more power.

Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current
implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and
hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported.

Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running
various test traffic with ping.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Kalle Valo
2010-01-12 10:42:31 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 2d46d7c121
commit ab13315af9
9 changed files with 106 additions and 6 deletions
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@@ -491,6 +491,10 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
else if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC)
local->hw.wiphy->signal_type = CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC;
WARN((local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD)
&& (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK),
"U-APSD not supported with HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK\n");
/*
* Calculate scan IE length -- we need this to alloc
* memory and to subtract from the driver limit. It