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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index a2ba6e29bd9a..e278f97c8305 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -792,6 +792,8 @@ void ieee80211_set_wmm_default(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
                         break;
                 }
 
+                qparam.uapsd = false;
+
                 drv_conf_tx(local, queue, &qparam);
         }
 }