wl1271: Work around AP's with broken ps-poll functionality
authorJuuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:50:00 +0000 (17:50 +0300)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:35:51 +0000 (16:35 -0400)
commit90494a90bea010af47547880634e0f1c52824a7d
treee7464aa406385a0a9908324e038736aa9cac6a4d
parent849923f43ca681cc86a401178db31acb60e79f3b
wl1271: Work around AP's with broken ps-poll functionality

Some AP's (such as Zyxel Prestige 600) have totally broken ps-poll
functionality. When powersave is enabled, these AP's will set the TIM bit for
a STA in beacons, but when the STA responds with a ps-poll, the AP does not
respond with data.

The wl1271 firmware is able to send an indication to the host, when this
problem occurs. This patch adds implementation, which temporarily disables
power-save in response to this indication, allowing the AP to transmit whatever
data it has buffered for the STA / whatever data is inbound at that time.

This patch does not make these AP's work reliably in PSM, but improves the
chances of inbound data getting through.

The side effect of this patch is increased power consumption when using a
faulty AP.

Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271.h
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_conf.h
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_event.c
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_event.h
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c