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Re: [PATCH 2.6.39] mac80211: always clear PS filtering for non-AP interfaces

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On 2011-05-06 3:08 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
On Friday 06 May 2011 02:41:14 Felix Fietkau wrote:
 PS filtering is only useful in AP mode and by setting the flags in mac80211,
 vif mode checks do not have to be added to every single driver supporting
 this.
 Fixes part of a regression introduced in commit 93ae2dd2
 "ath9k: assign keycache slots to unencrypted stations"

 Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau<nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 Reported-by: Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 ---
  net/mac80211/tx.c |    3 +++
  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

 diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
 index e1a39ed..b301216 100644
 --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
 +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
 @@ -1267,6 +1267,9 @@ ieee80211_tx_prepare(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
  		info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
  	else if (test_and_clear_sta_flags(tx->sta, WLAN_STA_CLEAR_PS_FILT))
  		info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;
 +	else if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP&&
 +	         sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN)
 +		info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT;

  	hdrlen = ieee80211_hdrlen(hdr->frame_control);
  	if (skb->len>  hdrlen + sizeof(rfc1042_header) + 2) {

uh, I think this will break p54* powersave in station mode.
But why do we set it anyway? It's not like the AP is in PS mode, right?
PS filtering is not meant for station mode at all. It's meant for suppressing lots of consecutive excessive retries when in AP mode sending traffic to a STA that just entered powersave.

- Felix
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