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rt2x00: change beaconing setup on RT2800
authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:52:24 +0000 (13:52 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:49:15 +0000 (15:49 -0400)
commitba08910e04e09088cac42ab6d5ceedd1239a3208
tree39030fe39a0c5a9a9101bc90c641c377ab3b4e19
parent283dafa1c69475596701da7767df471c0a71d8fb
rt2x00: change beaconing setup on RT2800

As reported by Matthias, on 5572 chip, even if we clear up TXWI
of corresponding beacon, hardware still try to send it or do other
action that increase power consumption peak up to 1A.

To avoid the issue, setup beaconing dynamically by configuring offsets
of currently active beacons and MAC_BSSID_DW1_BSS_BCN_NUM variable,
which limit number of beacons that hardware will try to send.

Reported-by: Matthias Fend <Matthias.Fend@wolfvision.net>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h