From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Vivek Natarajan <vivek.natraj@gmail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] mac80211: use ps-poll to request frames in power save mode
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:59:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231750767.4809.7.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e92b4100901120057n4cea722fo1a78bcbc45341d00@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090112_095751_397885_6849C4EB)
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On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:27 +0530, Vivek Natarajan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> wrote:
> > When a directed tim bit is set, mac80211 currently disables power save
> > and sends a null frame to the AP. But if dynamic power save is
> > disabled, mac80211 will not enable power save again.
>
> The patch I had sent earlier, 'mac80211: Reset the power save timer
> from master_start_xmit' (44378a8e64b9399...) addresses this issue.
> This enables mac80211 to start the dynamic ps timer after sending a
> null data frame. Hence when the specified time lapses, power save is
> enabled again.
Except when dynamic PS is disabled.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 7:03 [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] mac80211: ps-poll implementation Kalle Valo
2009-01-11 7:03 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] mac80211: remove multicast check from check_tim() Kalle Valo
2009-01-11 7:03 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] mac80211: use ps-poll to request frames in power save mode Kalle Valo
2009-01-11 7:09 ` Kalle Valo
2009-01-12 8:57 ` Vivek Natarajan
2009-01-12 8:59 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-01-12 9:03 ` Kalle Valo
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