ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode
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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
index cfd4d05..9e47d72 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
@@ -2942,10 +2942,8 @@
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);