iwlwifi: mvm: don't delay the association until after beacon

If we haven't heard a beacon before we associate we can
still start the association process and set the MAC in
the firmware to associated only after having received a
beacon with DTIM period by reacting to the new change
flag (BSS_CHANGED_DTIM_PERIOD) from mac80211.

This reduces the association time in these cases.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Berg 2013-01-24 23:48:23 +01:00
parent 739e42f4f3
commit 210a544e78
3 changed files with 15 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -584,7 +584,11 @@ static void iwl_mvm_mac_ctxt_cmd_fill_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
struct iwl_mac_data_sta *ctxt_sta)
{
ctxt_sta->is_assoc = cpu_to_le32(vif->bss_conf.assoc ? 1 : 0);
/* We need the dtim_period to set the MAC as associated */
if (vif->bss_conf.assoc && vif->bss_conf.dtim_period)
ctxt_sta->is_assoc = cpu_to_le32(1);
else
ctxt_sta->is_assoc = cpu_to_le32(0);
ctxt_sta->bi = cpu_to_le32(vif->bss_conf.beacon_int);
ctxt_sta->bi_reciprocal =

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@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ int iwl_mvm_mac_setup_register(struct iwl_mvm *mvm)
IEEE80211_HW_QUEUE_CONTROL |
IEEE80211_HW_WANT_MONITOR_VIF |
IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE |
IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_BEFORE_ASSOC |
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS |
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS |
IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION;
@ -671,8 +670,6 @@ static void iwl_mvm_bss_info_changed_station(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
IWL_ERR(mvm, "failed to update quotas\n");
return;
}
iwl_mvm_remove_time_event(mvm, mvmvif,
&mvmvif->time_event_data);
} else if (mvmvif->ap_sta_id != IWL_MVM_STATION_COUNT) {
/* remove AP station now that the MAC is unassoc */
ret = iwl_mvm_rm_sta_id(mvm, vif, mvmvif->ap_sta_id);
@ -684,6 +681,13 @@ static void iwl_mvm_bss_info_changed_station(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
if (ret)
IWL_ERR(mvm, "failed to update quotas\n");
}
} else if (changes & BSS_CHANGED_DTIM_PERIOD) {
/*
* We received a beacon _after_ association so
* remove the session protection.
*/
iwl_mvm_remove_time_event(mvm, mvmvif,
&mvmvif->time_event_data);
} else if (changes & BSS_CHANGED_PS) {
/*
* TODO: remove this temporary code.

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@ -184,9 +184,11 @@ static void iwl_mvm_te_handle_notif(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
*/
if (te_data->vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
(!te_data->vif->bss_conf.assoc ||
!te_data->vif->bss_conf.dtim_period))
!te_data->vif->bss_conf.dtim_period)) {
IWL_ERR(mvm,
"No assocation and the time event is over already...\n");
ieee80211_connection_loss(te_data->vif);
}
iwl_mvm_te_clear_data(mvm, te_data);
} else if (le32_to_cpu(notif->action) == TE_NOTIF_HOST_START) {