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mac80211: add U-APSD client support
authorKalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:31 +0000 (10:42 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:20:58 +0000 (14:20 -0500)
commit9b394b5c19e47f340e9bbab1de7c27e3af8c5d8a
treebefa549272ecff20b2839bd6671e4cccbce448f9
parent9bf5b3b04b5746d8c29375571d830004f90c6593
mac80211: add U-APSD client support

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>
include/linux/ieee80211.h
include/net/mac80211.h
net/mac80211/cfg.c
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/main.c
net/mac80211/mlme.c
net/mac80211/scan.c
net/mac80211/util.c
net/mac80211/work.c