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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] nl80211: Provide TDLS link state
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 08:56:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400741808.4174.5.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMcMvsh-zKuNgMSyo73VmsEUkM9YnhVtkg_Vigdter0QarJ6_g@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20140521_221907_003160_C6CF738D)

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 13:19 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:

> > Is it really that bad to demand the firmware notify the host? It's not
> > like this is a very frequent event, and if querying is supported then
> > notification can't be all that much more difficult.
> 
> I think firmware vendors are coming to the point of view that they
> must minimize host processor wakeups.  They may argue from that
> perspective that the firmware should divulge such information only on
> request.

That's reasonable, but the request could also be "list all TDLS peers
please", right? Then you could still implement it very easily. It
doesn't have to be an event.

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-22  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-20 20:27 [PATCH] nl80211: Provide TDLS link state Paul Stewart
2014-05-20 21:54 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-20 20:27   ` [PATCHv2] " Paul Stewart
2014-05-21 10:41     ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-21 16:17       ` Paul Stewart
2014-05-21 19:59         ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-21 20:19           ` Paul Stewart
2014-05-22  6:56             ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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