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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dynamic ps + offchannel mgmt_tx + HW RoC
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 18:01:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1462291262.2251.4.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPxzYKj-0kaBP6BYQvcTYZtaTTbtc0nR-=69qC9eCDDJoXxaA@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20160503_163230_612724_F1B0945E)

On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 20:02 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> > i don't see any issues in the powersave w.r.t driver. Isn't it a
> > valid case? you meant implementing dynamic_ps?

No, I really did mean implementing the entire PS logic in the driver,
instead of having mac80211 do it.

> If it advertise HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS it works fine.
> so may be we should queue those frames and send it to
> HW once it is out of powersave?

We could, but I *really* don't want to patch over the messy and broken
powersave code in mac80211 now.

I really do think that the only way out of this mess is to implement
powersave entirely outside of mac80211; perhaps mac80211 could provide
helpers for it, but tying it into the MLME implementation and having
all the PS-Poll stuff be global etc. is simply wrong today.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-03 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-03 12:53 dynamic ps + offchannel mgmt_tx + HW RoC Krishna Chaitanya
2016-05-03 13:14 ` Johannes Berg
2016-05-03 14:16   ` Krishna Chaitanya
2016-05-03 14:32     ` Krishna Chaitanya
2016-05-03 16:01       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-05-03 16:58         ` Krishna Chaitanya
2016-05-03 17:21           ` Janusz Dziedzic
2016-05-03 17:42             ` Johannes Berg
2016-05-03 19:35             ` Johannes Berg
2016-05-03 19:50               ` Krishna Chaitanya
2016-05-03 20:03                 ` Johannes Berg
2016-05-04  6:38                   ` Krishna Chaitanya

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