From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:39320 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752989AbYFLUyf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:54:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: fix beacon interval value From: Johannes Berg To: Tomas Winkler Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240806121347x211af015w51a9ca3cabaac96c@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080612_224749_666575_3A188782) References: <1213299517-24042-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1213299706.3730.39.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240806121305h721c6bd2x8073660d41653b92@mail.gmail.com> <1213301313.3730.47.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240806121347x211af015w51a9ca3cabaac96c@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080612_224749_666575_3A188782) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3mVuVniqh2YvwdIA8lpM" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:53:56 +0200 Message-Id: <1213304036.3730.51.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080612_225438_535659_D44182F7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-3mVuVniqh2YvwdIA8lpM Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I don't see how the beacon interval has any relation to "what is best > > for the hardware/driver". >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Are you talking about Linux users ? :). Usually vendors take such decisio= ns. Well I mean if it's userspace-configurable. johannes --=-3mVuVniqh2YvwdIA8lpM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJIUYzgAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYPQoP/Al0GWFzGkWKSEQDs3U9ZB1t zKfSHkNTueol690qiAoZLl4LSmUU54TRZ5W+5PvHst5La64/fLJ85WYFuIdiZn2J fU1gmEWY4n0Lqt3Hn1f5dzYPiIFfD2b2J4J1FTRmvTX4l3lKiKohXFIgnxjc7dfG ZN+Mjron0MpMMUvcVpuM/CvcDH2OxD91aoO8OwY659jrB2wryzCoqDRUQTDtTrfX jkLGdK3f+VGbGtUNL+ofxbevmVStC357OHX1LOTcWFhsQM6rKxAL3YdjqreX/GGc L6U+yi22+WqqAbJhvNfu6T/oGw8OkltmYuuBpjdG/p6lktUgCE48wGR+PU8wYE8L xnff48+nytVYYfZJfdYmlr2aOLuVx/NiiThStCKi4Kh1Xo6agY/ixSJKa0+KxgCR xMruI9A3dTpNvcatw1Pt3K2me7QY+C16IfFz0ZiNYEPVXMg/0xPJ4RTn+G6KdMkR cIQ3nBBzEF/6NmEUzXlugZMqvDwg169NqrXyEpM3m4u7fKrrrvc0YVIi0T+vaMJd tfsSiII9c4yBl547ig6a+VhMUE7u7fGvAqwCruGp5a8NvrsbZSj8tTiUHXZFSFAL ZZ3Vi74E8sDjl2/VXURNIWWCxqJAx56th2KxhRdj1FWsCoj6NyLnjG8YaBdwAXy/ IBUuLsjuJ1QbPxocx4rV =3nFP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3mVuVniqh2YvwdIA8lpM--