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Commit ab13315a authored by Kalle Valo's avatar Kalle Valo Committed by John W. Linville
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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: default avatarKalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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