From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] mac80211: Add interface for driver to temporarily disable dynamic ps
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:57:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100616185706.GC3138@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1276668092-28872-1-git-send-email-juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:01:32AM +0300, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> This mechanism introduced in this patch applies (at least) for hardware
> designs using a single shared antenna for both WLAN and BT. In these designs,
> the antenna must be toggled between WLAN and BT.
>
> In those hardware, managing WLAN co-existence with Bluetooth requires WLAN
> full power save whenever there is Bluetooth activity in order for WLAN to be
> able to periodically relinquish the antenna to be used for BT. This is because
> BT can only access the shared antenna when WLAN is idle or asleep.
Maybe it is just me, but
void ieee80211_enable_dyn_ps(struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
void ieee80211_disable_dyn_ps(struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
would make more sense than
void ieee80211_disable_dyn_ps(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, bool disable)
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-16 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-16 6:01 [PATCHv2] mac80211: Add interface for driver to temporarily disable dynamic ps Juuso Oikarinen
2010-06-16 18:57 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-06-17 4:49 ` Juuso Oikarinen
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