mac80211: do not restart ps timer during scan or offchannel
authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:27:53 +0000 (22:57 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:29:51 +0000 (16:29 -0500)
commit8c99f69182fb9550ceedf599b32af335e743367b
treea659b301ed7c8328f4bc179422d11e4962f26dbd
parent24d24c627cadcbff682fbf8448a775851bef833c
mac80211: do not restart ps timer during scan or offchannel

While leaving oper channel, STA informs sleep state to AP to
stop sending data. Till sending ack for the nullfunc, AP
continues to send the data to STA which restarts ps_timer that
is causing unnecessary nullfunc exchange on timer expiry
when the STA was already moved to offchannel. So don't restart ps_timer
on data reception during scan. This issue was identified by
the following warning.

WARNING: at net/mac80211/tx.c:661 invoke_tx_handlers+0xf07/0x1330 [mac80211]
wlan0: Dropped data frame as no usable bitrate found while scanning and
associated. Target station: 00:03:7f:0b:a6:1b on 5 GHz band
Call Trace:
  [<ffffffffa0413ba7>] invoke_tx_handlers+0xf07/0x1330 [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa0414056>] ieee80211_tx+0x86/0x2c0 [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa0414345>] ieee80211_xmit+0xb5/0x1d0 [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa04037e0>] ieee80211_dynamic_ps_enable_work+0x0/0xb0 [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa04158cf>] ieee80211_tx_skb+0x4f/0x60 [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa04026e6>] ieee80211_send_nullfunc+0x46/0x60 [mac80211]
  [<ffffffffa0403885>] ieee80211_dynamic_ps_enable_work+0xa5/0xb0 [mac80211]

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/rx.c