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    mac80211: always update the PM state of a peer on MGMT / DATA frames · 9fef6544
    Emmanuel Grumbach 提交于
    The 2016 version of the spec is more generic about when the
    AP should update the power management state of the peer:
    the AP shall update the state based on any management or
    data frames. This means that even non-bufferable management
    frames should be looked at to update to maintain the power
    management state of the peer.
    
    This can avoid problematic cases for example if a station
    disappears while being asleep and then re-appears. The AP
    would remember it as in power save, but the Authentication
    frame couldn't be used to set the peer as awake again.
    Note that this issues wasn't really critical since at some
    point (after the association) we would have removed the
    station and created another one with all the states cleared.
    Signed-off-by: NEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: NLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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