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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: fix processing of TX PS null data frames

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When mac80211 was telling us to go into Powersave we listened
> and immediately turned RX off. This meant hardware would not
> see the ACKs from the AP we're associated with and hardware
> we'd end up retransmiting the null data frame in a loop
> helplessly.
>
> Fix this by keeping track of the transmitted nullfunc frames
> and only when we are sure the AP has sent back an ACK do we
> go ahead and shut RX off.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <Vivek.Natarajan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>

BTW this was a bit large and I cannot say for sure if this is a
regression fix at this point -- but I still do consider this a stable
fix and will be supporting it for customers as a cherry picked patch.

  Luis
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