From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:59321 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753556Ab0A0TN4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:13:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave From: Johannes Berg To: "Guy, Wey-Yi" Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "kalle.valo@iki.fi" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "j@w1.fi" , "buytenh@wantstofly.org" In-Reply-To: <1264616062.8619.22.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> References: <1264511993.25642.9.camel@johannes.local> <43e72e891001271001r2cc39da4ka00a3eef06f6e139@mail.gmail.com> <1264615477.8619.20.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> <43e72e891001271014j667221bqa11d56f3a68f6099@mail.gmail.com> <1264616062.8619.22.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-E4Dv4BIrlVRG5oaDIi5/" Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:13:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1264619627.25642.25.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-E4Dv4BIrlVRG5oaDIi5/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:14 -0800, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote: > > > It will be nice to see a respective solution for stable since this > > > impact power save which is very important for certain platform. > >=20 > > Well how about your patch for stable then? > >=20 > if ok with you and Johannes, I will like to see it happen, the only > issue is, my patch only address iwlwifi but not mwl8k. It might be possible to port this patch to stable by changing the way we determine whether or not we received a beacon already -- it currently relies on Jouni's cfg80211 change (look for beacon_ies) but that could be changed, for instance to use the dtim_period in the BSS struct as a flag. johannes --=-E4Dv4BIrlVRG5oaDIi5/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLYJBnAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaKg8P/jjKqchMOlL2C1pwjAM55FFX HfaZgO9DaEZlVJ4yn9XfnR2EvTAikFdTgUCyq7zemuewLGO4xmHeZ7/AQaam/bH2 gUPKDppjlzLAd7/HEwGsqtDtHP4onncYmw0ZUhOQqjoSfZH4Qu2gXsn7Rz5JNyHn gb6tjryd9KLZjDx0buyMLEQw/QbqSQHRKZSq8ZNPHedZfqnfZSYtqnwHEmNSoexM uYhewsWaATqvbkY8P34g7E7TuAefPB12SFqgCBV1yhCqztULCgKSQ6TpiMuOOv9i 1EFQFW1pMP7m+YJHoaBhynab1ME0ziocKHeGtQjSkwj4eJHWZaMZEAbGpsvV1IKl B+tRysfTb8aYRa+iQ7PggXnwanaf3uqqRARdr8cQhMZS6acxoFY8nnJ9lBNie7z6 j7Qq6ayyofNrs23tuWntnkaHo8tG6ftq1jupmcf/QuOvT2UC8SJ3P0K6PsRgx/Ec r1dvKTN6gDO0OSSs217u7ZpOiTyAx/fl99fxLnpEpYWKBoFWYi6kyuURwmID24S+ 7YiE79mdEYvZTgU1sk3ycMCLePsDUWpIADvJX9S3LxrMu472Dw+ZYk+nllXyMNbz IHE7zNKgar1OHVBqobdPpy7i/9ONlh9yHtEEScrldIxll2oG3owTeG2jGltIgUyM jEsE3QdjL/Hs75d1MwUG =FZYq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-E4Dv4BIrlVRG5oaDIi5/--