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mac80211: do not send pspoll when powersave is disabled
authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:20:36 +0000 (05:50 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 9 Apr 2012 20:05:54 +0000 (16:05 -0400)
commitdacfad51b4e32e2e47511f5467758b6e3a590fde
tree7059244cf8cf0c35588e81e9ccf5b9b6b40e3e53
parenteb247b85886aba70962618eaf0ac89506b36c013
mac80211: do not send pspoll when powersave is disabled

There might be latency at AP side to update TIM IE which could cause the
station to send pspoll frame even after the wakeup. If the powersave is
disabled, the nullfunc notification alone is sufficient to receive
frames from the AP. And if the pspoll frame was already sent, no need to
resend the frame till it was acked by AP.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/mlme.c