Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: fix beacon interval value

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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> > I don't see how the beacon interval has any relation to "what is best
> > for the hardware/driver".
> 
> Usually this affect power management if implemented.

Hmm, yeah, but wouldn't that have to deal with all values?

>  And doing this just creates hard to debug
> > differences between drivers. All differences between different drivers
> > are causing problems at some point.
> 
> Get assimilated :)

Heh.

> > Wrt. configurability, yes, we should maybe allow this. Although it's
> > only used for IBSS (in BSS it is configurable already)
> You mean probably AP

Yes.

> What should be the proper interface  sysfs or iw(nl) ?

nl80211, I'd think, yeah, for BSS (AP) you can set it along with the
beacon.

> >so I'm not
> > entirely sure... users are probably not able to make an informed
> > decision anyway.
> 
> Are you talking about Linux users ? :). Usually vendors take such decisions.

Well I mean if it's userspace-configurable.

johannes

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