Re: [PATCH] mac80211: tell driver when idle

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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Hi Marcel,

> > Is it appropriate to go into idle state for a short time when we have
> > just authenticated, but not associated yet? This happens only with the
> > userspace SME, because we cannot really know how long it will wait
> > before asking us to associate. Would going idle after a short timeout
> > be more appropriate? We may need to revisit this, depending on what
> > happens.
> 
> what about having the hardware set a value for how long something should
> be idle before you tell it. I am more thinking about some sort penalty
> value from the hardware that can not do this quickly.

You're only referring to this case of between auth/assoc, right? I'm not
sure it makes sense to have this HW dependent, the time between
auth/assoc really only depend on how fast the SME is. If we first wait a
bit, because HW advertises some "penalty value", and then the SME is
just a little bit slower than that value, we'd get an even worse
situation, no?

johannes

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