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[v2,03/33] staging: wfx: ignore PS when STA/AP share same channel

Message ID 20210913083045.1881321-4-Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com
State Superseded
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Series staging/wfx: usual maintenance | expand

Commit Message

Jérôme Pouiller Sept. 13, 2021, 8:30 a.m. UTC 
From: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>

When multiple interface are in use. One is always AP while the other is
always station. When the two interface use the same channel, it makes no
sense to enabled Power Saving (PS) on the station. Indeed, because of
the AP, the device will be kept awake on this channel anyway.

In add, when multiple interface are in use, mac80211 does not update the
PS information and delegate to the driver responsibility to do the
right thing.

Thus, in the current code, when the user enable PS in this
configuration, the driver finally enable PS-Poll which is probably not
what the user expected.

This patch detect this case and applies a sane configuration in all
cases.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Comments

Dan Carpenter Sept. 13, 2021, 10:42 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:36:25PM +0200, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2021 11:33:28 CEST Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:30:15AM +0200, Jerome Pouiller wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
> > > index 5de9ccf02285..aff0559653bf 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
> > > @@ -154,18 +154,26 @@ static int wfx_get_ps_timeout(struct wfx_vif *wvif, bool *enable_ps)
> > >               chan0 = wdev_to_wvif(wvif->wdev, 0)->vif->bss_conf.chandef.chan;
> > >       if (wdev_to_wvif(wvif->wdev, 1))
> > >               chan1 = wdev_to_wvif(wvif->wdev, 1)->vif->bss_conf.chandef.chan;
> > > -     if (chan0 && chan1 && chan0->hw_value != chan1->hw_value &&
> > > -         wvif->vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
> > > -             // It is necessary to enable powersave if channels
> > > -             // are different.
> > > -             if (enable_ps)
> > > -                     *enable_ps = true;
> > > -             if (wvif->wdev->force_ps_timeout > -1)
> > > -                     return wvif->wdev->force_ps_timeout;
> > > -             else if (wfx_api_older_than(wvif->wdev, 3, 2))
> > > -                     return 0;
> > > -             else
> > > -                     return 30;
> > > +     if (chan0 && chan1 && wvif->vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
> > > +             if (chan0->hw_value == chan1->hw_value) {
> > > +                     // It is useless to enable PS if channels are the same.
> > > +                     if (enable_ps)
> > > +                             *enable_ps = false;
> > > +                     if (wvif->vif->bss_conf.assoc && wvif->vif->bss_conf.ps)
> > > +                             dev_info(wvif->wdev->dev, "ignoring requested PS mode");
> > > +                     return -1;
> > 
> > I can't be happy about this -1 return or how it's handled in the caller.
> > There is already a -1 return so it's not really a new bug, though...
> 
> I see what you mean. However,  I remember it is easy to break things
> here and I don't want to change that in a rush. So, I would prefer to
> solve that in a further PR.

Yes.  That's fine.  The return -1 was already there.

regards,
dan carpenter
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
index 5de9ccf02285..aff0559653bf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/sta.c
@@ -154,18 +154,26 @@  static int wfx_get_ps_timeout(struct wfx_vif *wvif, bool *enable_ps)
 		chan0 = wdev_to_wvif(wvif->wdev, 0)->vif->bss_conf.chandef.chan;
 	if (wdev_to_wvif(wvif->wdev, 1))
 		chan1 = wdev_to_wvif(wvif->wdev, 1)->vif->bss_conf.chandef.chan;
-	if (chan0 && chan1 && chan0->hw_value != chan1->hw_value &&
-	    wvif->vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
-		// It is necessary to enable powersave if channels
-		// are different.
-		if (enable_ps)
-			*enable_ps = true;
-		if (wvif->wdev->force_ps_timeout > -1)
-			return wvif->wdev->force_ps_timeout;
-		else if (wfx_api_older_than(wvif->wdev, 3, 2))
-			return 0;
-		else
-			return 30;
+	if (chan0 && chan1 && wvif->vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
+		if (chan0->hw_value == chan1->hw_value) {
+			// It is useless to enable PS if channels are the same.
+			if (enable_ps)
+				*enable_ps = false;
+			if (wvif->vif->bss_conf.assoc && wvif->vif->bss_conf.ps)
+				dev_info(wvif->wdev->dev, "ignoring requested PS mode");
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			// It is necessary to enable PS if channels
+			// are different.
+			if (enable_ps)
+				*enable_ps = true;
+			if (wvif->wdev->force_ps_timeout > -1)
+				return wvif->wdev->force_ps_timeout;
+			else if (wfx_api_older_than(wvif->wdev, 3, 2))
+				return 0;
+			else
+				return 30;
+		}
 	}
 	if (enable_ps)
 		*enable_ps = wvif->vif->bss_conf.ps;