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Commit 90d6f928 authored by Christian Lamparter's avatar Christian Lamparter Committed by John W. Linville
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p54: fix broadcast buffering in AP mode



The patch "mac80211: fix PS-poll response race" somehow broke
broadcast buffering in a funny way.

During normal operation - stations are awake - the firmware refused
to transmit broadcast frames and reported P54_TX_PSM_CANCELLED.
But everything worked as soon as one station entered PSM.

The reason:
The stack sets IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM for outgoing
broadcast frames as soon as a station is marked as sleeping.
This flag triggers a path which will reroute these frames
into p54's "content after beacon" queue, which is designed
to cope with the demands for psm.

This patch restores the old behavior.

IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT will once again be used to signalize
the firmware to ignore the ps canceling for certain frames.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 7c6a3ed5
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