For whatever reason, when connected to an open/no-security BSS,
the wcn36xx controller in bmps mode does not forward 'wake-up'
beacons despite AP sends DTIM with station AID.
Meaning that AP is not able to wakeup the station and needs to wait
for the station to wakeup by its own (TX data, keep alive pkt...),
causing serious latency issues and unexpected deauth.
When connected to AP with encryption enabled, this issue does not occur.
So a simple workaround is to only enable bmps support in that case.
Ideally, it should be propertly fixed to allow bmps support with open
BSS, whatever the issue is at driver or firmware level.
Tested on wcn3620 and wcn3680.
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1598363127-26066-1-git-send-email-loic.poulain@linaro.org
Since driver does not report hardware dynamic power saving cap,
this is up to the mac80211 to manage power saving timeout and
state machine, using the ieee80211 config callback to report
PS changes. This patch enables/disables PS mode according to
the new configuration.
Remove old behaviour enabling PS mode in a static way, this make
the device unusable when power save is enabled since device is
forced to PS regardless RX/TX traffic.
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
