[ath9k-devel] ar9330 autosleep

[Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 08:21:59AM +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Bob Copeland wrote:
> > So I'm still missing the part where we wake hardware up on this version.
> > It seemed to work for me though.
> 
> Sorry, I was referring to the PS mechanism on chips which don't
> support autosleep.
> 
> For autosleep, no special handling in the driver is required
> except the initial duration programming done in
> ath9k_hw_set_sta_beacon_timers(). The HW wakes up to receive
> every beacon and automatically goes back to network sleep.

Ok, got it, so if I have a need to wake up for beacons from multiple
APs with different TSFs, then autosleep probably wouldn't work for me?
(I already implemented what I need with the TIM_TIMER on these chips,
just asking to confirm my understanding.)

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