mac80211: disable u-APSD queues by default
authorMichal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:48:44 +0000 (12:48 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:02:11 +0000 (14:02 +0200)
commit1feca9723ec9b672211b9ad64d3a92fbd99d49e1
treefc8dfebb2d8ff76497cf7d824dda6bcb91cd9a85
parent9de9cea31095afa68b5eaa3030c4a2969a59e963
mac80211: disable u-APSD queues by default

commit aa75ebc275b2a91b193654a177daf900ad6703f0 upstream.

Some APs experience problems when working with
U-APSD. Decreasing the probability of that
happening by using legacy mode for all ACs but VO
isn't enough.

Cisco 4410N originally forced us to enable VO by
default only because it treated non-VO ACs as
legacy.

However some APs (notably Netgear R7000) silently
reclassify packets to different ACs. Since u-APSD
ACs require trigger frames for frame retrieval
clients would never see some frames (e.g. ARP
responses) or would fetch them accidentally after
a long time.

It makes little sense to enable u-APSD queues by
default because it needs userspace applications to
be aware of it to actually take advantage of the
possible additional powersavings. Implicitly
depending on driver autotrigger frame support
doesn't make much sense.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h