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Re: [PATCH] ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode

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2008/10/29 Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> We were setting RX_FILTER_BEACON even after entering STA mode,
> which leads to a lot of unnecessary wakeups.  This should fix the
> bug "Ath5k driver has too many interrupts per second at idle" at
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11749.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> index c7ffcbb..5ef8cc4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> @@ -2952,10 +2952,8 @@ static void ath5k_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
>                sc->opmode != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT &&
>                test_bit(ATH_STAT_PROMISC, sc->status))
>                rfilt |= AR5K_RX_FILTER_PROM;
> -       if (sc->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION ||
> -               sc->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) {
> +       if (sc->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
>                rfilt |= AR5K_RX_FILTER_BEACON;
> -       }
>        if (sc->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT)
>                rfilt |= AR5K_RX_FILTER_CONTROL | AR5K_RX_FILTER_BEACON |
>                        AR5K_RX_FILTER_PROBEREQ | AR5K_RX_FILTER_PROM;

Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@xxxxxxxxx>



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