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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	"Guy, Wey-Yi W" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: wireless powersaving (in NM?)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:54:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238057661.4331.16.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890903260139k29d9e9a0ub418cdfbaef03418@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090326_093918_011896_56866168)

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On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 01:39 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > We talked about that briefly yesterday -- it's not very easy to
> > determine this because of the various ways things break:
> >
> >  * one AP sets the broadcast/multicast bit one beacon too late (after
> >   having already sent the frames)
> >  * one AP doesn't buffer frames at all
> >  * one AP doesn't respond to PS-poll frames
> 
> It sounds like all 3 things can be tested for.

Yes, but how complicated does it get, and is it worth it to invest that
much work for these (hopefully few) ancient APs?

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-26  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-24 10:39 wireless powersaving (in NM?) Johannes Berg
2009-03-24 10:32 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-03-25 10:45   ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-24 13:47 ` John W. Linville
2009-03-24 13:53 ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-24 14:47   ` Guy, Wey-Yi W
2009-03-24 15:03     ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-24 14:17 ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-25 10:57   ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-25 19:53     ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-25 20:06       ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-25 20:09         ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-25 20:22         ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-24 15:59 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-25 11:04   ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-25 15:31     ` Dan Williams
2009-03-25 15:48       ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-26  8:00         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-03-26  8:11           ` Johannes Berg
2009-03-26  8:39             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-03-26  8:54               ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-03-26  9:01                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-03-26 14:29                   ` Georgy Berdyshev
2009-03-26  8:19           ` Kalle Valo
2009-03-26  8:40             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-03-31 16:28 ` Johannes Berg
2009-04-01 11:04 ` more thoughts on power saving (was: wireless powersaving (in NM?)) Johannes Berg
2009-04-01 11:12   ` Kalle Valo
2009-04-01 14:29     ` Guy, Wey-Yi W

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