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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index dc12e9466ffd..8286df5822d5 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -1128,6 +1128,13 @@ static int ieee80211_set_txq_params(struct wiphy *wiphy,
         p.cw_max = params->cwmax;
         p.cw_min = params->cwmin;
         p.txop = params->txop;
+
+        /*
+         * Setting tx queue params disables u-apsd because it's only
+         * called in master mode.
+         */
+        p.uapsd = false;
+
         if (drv_conf_tx(local, params->queue, &p)) {
                 printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: failed to set TX queue "
                        "parameters for queue %d\n",