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Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mlme.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/mlme.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index c05be09b9c6..209abb073df 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -909,6 +909,21 @@ static void ieee80211_associate(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) mod_timer(&ifmgd->timer, jiffies + IEEE80211_ASSOC_TIMEOUT); } +void ieee80211_sta_rx_notify(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, + struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr) +{ + /* + * We can postpone the mgd.timer whenever receiving unicast frames + * from AP because we know that the connection is working both ways + * at that time. But multicast frames (and hence also beacons) must + * be ignored here, because we need to trigger the timer during + * data idle periods for sending the periodical probe request to + * the AP. + */ + if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) + mod_timer(&sdata->u.mgd.timer, + jiffies + IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL); +} static void ieee80211_associated(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) { |