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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-03-15 13:26:51 -0700 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-04-09 16:37:21 -0400 |
| commit | e56103823716039418d099221dd2059fa7547fbf (patch) | |
| tree | ae2151ff0c7ca3ac43e3947ae9dc7d20651d9fcb /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c | |
| parent | 6a22f10c45f81cb66770b9432ca971375ccc2000 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e56103823716039418d099221dd2059fa7547fbf.tar.gz lwn-e56103823716039418d099221dd2059fa7547fbf.zip | |
iwlwifi: use scan while idle
As idle is just a deep powersave mode for
the device, it will easily scan while idle
since that turns off powersave.
This reduces the number of commands sent
to the device when scanning.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c index b6805f8e9a01..d2be4b60488d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-mac80211.c @@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ int iwlagn_mac_setup_register(struct iwl_priv *priv, */ hw->flags |= IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS | - IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS; + IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS | + IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE; if (hw_params(priv).sku & EEPROM_SKU_CAP_11N_ENABLE) hw->flags |= IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_SMPS | |