Michael reported that p54* never really entered power save mode, even tough it was enabled. It turned out that upon a power save mode change the firmware will set a special flag onto the last outgoing frame tx status (which in this case is almost always the designated PSM nullfunc frame). This flag confused the driver; It erroneously reported transmission failures to the stack, which then generated the next nullfunc. and so on... Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c index 34447d1..1dc0dbf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static void p54_rx_frame_sent(struct p54_common *priv, struct sk_buff *skb) } if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK) && - (!payload->status)) + !(payload->status & P54_TX_FAILED)) info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK; if (payload->status & P54_TX_PSM_CANCELLED) info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_TX_FILTERED; -- 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
