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[ath] force wake the hardware if we see a missed beacon.

Description

[ath] force wake the hardware if we see a missed beacon.

This adds a workaround to incorrectly behaving APs (ie, FreeBSD APs) which
don't beacon out exactly when they should (at TBTT multiples of beacon
intervals.)

It forces the hardware awake (but leaves it in network-sleep so self
generated frames still state that the hardware is asleep!) and will
remain awake until the next sleep transition driven by net80211.

That way if the beacons are just at the wrong interval, we get a much
better chance of hearing more consecutive beacons before we go to sleep,
thus not constantly disconnecting.

Tested:

  • AR9485, STA mode, against a misbehaving FreeBSD AP.

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rS309255: MFC r308730:
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