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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2 v2] mac80211: Retry null data frame for power save.

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On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 19:29 +0530, Vivek Natarajan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> @@ -275,6 +274,19 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
> >>                       local->dot11FailedCount++;
> >>       }
> >>
> >> +     if (ieee80211_is_nullfunc(fc) && ieee80211_has_pm(fc) &&
> >> +             (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_TX_STATUS) &&
> >> +             (local->hw.conf.flags & IEEE80211_CONF_PS)) {
> >> +             if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK) {
> >> +                     local->ps_sdata->u.mgd.flags |=
> >> +                                     IEEE80211_STA_NULLFUNC_ACKED;
> >> +                     ieee80211_queue_work(&local->hw,
> >> +                                      &local->dynamic_ps_enable_work);
> >> +             } else
> >> +                     mod_timer(&local->dynamic_ps_timer, jiffies +
> >> +                                     msecs_to_jiffies(10));
> >> +     }
> >> +
> >>       /* this was a transmitted frame, but now we want to reuse it */
> >>       skb_orphan(skb);
> > And the mod_timer case is completely useless there anyway, at least the
> > way you've done this now.
> Ah, right! Thanks for pointing it out.

I htink you should only set CONF_PS after the frame is ACKed, otherwise
internal stuff might be confused too?

johannes

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