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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: how to update platform power state for the network driver
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:31:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357752686.9757.18.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6929081.7c7blFVDp4@lx-vladimir> (sfid-20130109_182029_783210_FC7FE104)

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 19:20 +0200, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in 60g spec (802.11ad, references to this doc.), station should set "power source" bit in the:
> 
> 8.4.2.130.3 DMG PCP/AP Capability Information field
> 
> This information used to construct "PCP factor" that used in:
> 
> 10.1.4.3.4 PCP selection in a PBSS
> 
> This procedure replaces GO negotiation in P2P. "power source" bit above specified as:
> 
> The Power Source field is set to 0 if the STA is battery powered, and is set to 1 otherwise.
> 
> What is the best way to obtain this info in the network driver?

You can't really do that very well. Set it in wpa_supplicant according
to the configuration. It might even query the power source on a laptop,
but I suspect this is a somewhat different use case anyway.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-09 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-09 17:20 Q: how to update platform power state for the network driver Vladimir Kondratiev
2013-01-09 17:31 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-01-10 12:06 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2013-01-11  0:45   ` Julian Calaby
2013-01-13  7:34     ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2013-01-14  7:07     ` Kalle Valo
2013-01-10 21:39 ` Kalle Valo
2013-01-13  7:33   ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2013-01-14  7:01     ` Kalle Valo

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