ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode
authorBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:30:56 +0000 (08:30 -0400)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:54:35 +0000 (17:54 -0400)
We were setting RX_FILTER_BEACON even after entering STA mode,
which leads to a lot of unnecessary wakeups.  This should fix the
bug "Ath5k driver has too many interrupts per second at idle" at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11749.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c

index cfd4d052d666ea8cbda45b37c541cb2592dad3a0..9e47d727e2206ff28c647f648bb29caf4888057d 100644 (file)
@@ -2942,10 +2942,8 @@ static void ath5k_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
                sc->opmode != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT &&
                test_bit(ATH_STAT_PROMISC, sc->status))
                rfilt |= AR5K_RX_FILTER_PROM;
-       if (sc->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION ||
-               sc->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) {
+       if (sc->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
                rfilt |= AR5K_RX_FILTER_BEACON;
-       }
 
        /* Set filters */
        ath5k_hw_set_rx_filter(ah,rfilt);