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mac80211: allow disable power save in mesh

Allow mesh interface to disable the power save which is by default
turn on in certain chipset. Testing with 2 units of ZCN-1523H-5-16
featuring AR9280 chipset which have power save enabled by default.
Constant reset if the average signal of the peer mesh STA is below
-80 dBm and power save is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Chun-Yeow Yeoh 12 years ago
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      net/mac80211/cfg.c

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net/mac80211/cfg.c

@@ -2232,7 +2232,8 @@ static int ieee80211_set_power_mgmt(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
 
-	if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
+	if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
+	    sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	if (!(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS))