mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave

Because DTIM information is required for powersave
but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon
before enabling powersave, and change the way the
information is conveyed to the driver accordingly.

mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but
requires the DTIM period in a different way; after
talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do
the parsing itself in the finalize_join work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index 9afe2f9885dc..bc061f629674 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -111,10 +111,6 @@ ieee80211_bss_info_update(struct ieee80211_local *local,
                 bss->dtim_period = tim_ie->dtim_period;
         }
 
-        /* set default value for buggy AP/no TIM element */
-        if (bss->dtim_period == 0)
-                bss->dtim_period = 1;
-
         bss->supp_rates_len = 0;
         if (elems->supp_rates) {
                 clen = IEEE80211_MAX_SUPP_RATES - bss->supp_rates_len;