mac80211: support hw scan while idle
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 support for hw scan while idle.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 19f0818..6b3cd65 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1332,7 +1332,8 @@
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;
}