From: Marty Faltesek <mfaltesek@xxxxxxxxxx> In uap mode the carrier is not enabled until after the first STA joins. The carrier triggers the bridge to start its state machine, and if STP is enabled, it takes 4 seconds as it transitions from disabled to forwarding. During this time the bridge drops all traffic, and the EAPOL handshake times out after 3 seconds, preventing stations from joining. Follow the logic used in mac80211 and start the carrier in start_ap and disable it in stop_ap. This has a nice benefit of allowing the first station connection time to be reduced by up to 75% when STP is in use. Signed-off-by: Martin Faltesek <mfaltesek@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: Move only netdev queue status change code to start/stop AP handlers. Discarded other changes in v1 which had side effects (Avinash Patil) --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 8 ++++++++ drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c | 7 ------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c index b7ac45f..4073116 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -1821,6 +1821,10 @@ static int mwifiex_cfg80211_stop_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev) return -1; } + if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev)) + netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev); + mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, priv->adapter); + return 0; } @@ -1925,6 +1929,10 @@ static int mwifiex_cfg80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, if (mwifiex_set_mgmt_ies(priv, ¶ms->beacon)) return -1; + if (!netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev)) + netif_carrier_on(priv->netdev); + mwifiex_wake_up_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, priv->adapter); + memcpy(&priv->bss_cfg, bss_cfg, sizeof(priv->bss_cfg)); kfree(bss_cfg); return 0; diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c index 078834c..86ff542 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c @@ -179,19 +179,12 @@ int mwifiex_process_uap_event(struct mwifiex_private *priv) case EVENT_UAP_BSS_IDLE: priv->media_connected = false; priv->port_open = false; - if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev)) - netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev); - mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter); - mwifiex_clean_txrx(priv); mwifiex_del_all_sta_list(priv); break; case EVENT_UAP_BSS_ACTIVE: priv->media_connected = true; priv->port_open = true; - if (!netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev)) - netif_carrier_on(priv->netdev); - mwifiex_wake_up_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter); break; case EVENT_UAP_BSS_START: mwifiex_dbg(adapter, EVENT, -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html