mac80211: add U-APSD client support
Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The
idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered
frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it
possible to save even more power.
Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current
implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and
hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported.
Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running
various test traffic with ping.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 4688291..0054bba 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -491,6 +491,10 @@
else if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC)
local->hw.wiphy->signal_type = CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC;
+ WARN((local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_UAPSD)
+ && (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK),
+ "U-APSD not supported with HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK\n");
+
/*
* Calculate scan IE length -- we need this to alloc
* memory and to subtract from the driver limit. It