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authorHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>2010-10-02 11:31:33 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-10-05 13:35:27 -0400
commit5a5b6ed6ce46be128f2a5a9e56f47193c3ac3e32 (patch)
tree7b2798a71a4f0c92ad1e12d31f260707c2070ef3 /drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
parentc4c18a9dc16095fc8ada423f1e6ff3830d56d37c (diff)
rt2x00: Don't enable broad- and multicast buffering on USB devices
Since rt2x00 USB devices have no chance to know when a beacon was sent out in AP mode currently all broad- and multicast traffic is buffered in mac80211 but never sent out at all. Unfortunately we have no chance in sending the traffic out after a DTIM beacon due to hw limitations. Hence, instead of never sending the buffered traffic out better send it out immediately. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Reported-by: Lauri Hintsala <lauri.hintsala@bluegiga.com> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
index f78bc2a2932..66939fd8689 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
@@ -2063,9 +2063,14 @@ static int rt73usb_probe_hw_mode(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
/*
* Initialize all hw fields.
+ *
+ * Don't set IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING unless we are
+ * capable of sending the buffered frames out after the DTIM
+ * transmission using rt2x00lib_beacondone. This will send out
+ * multicast and broadcast traffic immediately instead of buffering it
+ * infinitly and thus dropping it after some time.
*/
rt2x00dev->hw->flags =
- IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING |
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM |
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS |
IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK;