Currently, mac80211 goes to idle-off before starting a scan.
However, some devices that implement hw scan might not
need going idle-off in order to perform a hw scan, and
thus saving some energy and simplifying their state machine.
(Note that this is also the case for sched scan - it
currently doesn't make mac80211 go idle-off)
Add a new flag to indicate hw scan while idle support.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/mac80211.h | 5 +++++
net/mac80211/iface.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 2a7523e..f8d407c 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1134,6 +1134,10 @@ enum sta_notify_cmd {
* @IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW: The device handles TX A-MPDU session
* setup strictly in HW. mac80211 should not attempt to do this in
* software.
+ *
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE: The device can do hw scan while
+ * being idle (i.e. mac80211 doesn't have to go idle-off during the
+ * the scan).
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL = 1<<0,
@@ -1160,6 +1164,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PER_STA_GTK = 1<<21,
IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS = 1<<22,
IEEE80211_HW_TX_AMPDU_SETUP_IN_HW = 1<<23,
+ IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE = 1<<24,
};
/**
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 01a21c2..ca1a9f3 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1323,7 +1323,8 @@ u32 __ieee80211_recalc_idle(struct ieee80211_local *local)
wk->sdata->vif.bss_conf.idle = false;
}
- if (local->scan_sdata) {
+ if (local->scan_sdata &&
+ !(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE)) {
scanning = true;
local->scan_sdata->vif.bss_conf.idle = false;
}
--
1.7.6.401.g6a319
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