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[PATCH] Revert "mac80211: allow disable power save in mesh"

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This reverts commit ee1f668136b2fb6640ee2d54c2a525ea41f98211.

The aformentioned commit added a check to allow
'iw wlan0 set power_save off' to work for mesh interfaces.

However, this is problematic because it also allows
'iw wlan0 set power_save on', which will crash in short order
because all of the subsequent code manipulates sdata->u.mgd.

The power-saving states for mesh interfaces can be manipulated
through the mesh config, e.g:
'iw wlan0 set mesh_param mesh_power_save=active' (which,
despite the name, actualy disables power saving since the
setting refers to the type of sleep the interface undergoes).

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Chun-Yeow, I ran into the above mentioned crash when playing with
mesh PS.  Can you clarify how the original patch helped?

 net/mac80211/cfg.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index ed1e9a8..478211c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -2488,8 +2488,7 @@ static int ieee80211_set_power_mgmt(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
 
-	if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
-	    sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT)
+	if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	if (!(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS))
-- 
1.7.10.4

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