From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Venkateswara Naralasetty <vnaralas@codeaurora.org>,
ath11k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] nl80211: vendor-cmd: qca: add command for ap power save
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:40:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rilf2th.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b4a0d79a243c1c3b8044730da0493c96ba294bf.camel@sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:24:22 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 13:56 +0530, Venkateswara Naralasetty wrote:
>> AP power save feature is to save power in AP mode, where AP goes
>> to power save mode when no stations associate to it and comes out
>> of power save when any station associate to AP.
>
> Why do you think this requires a vendor command? I mean, that seems like
> fairly reasonable - even by default - behaviour?
I have not studied the details, but doesn't AP power save break normal
functionality? For example, I would guess probe requests from clients
would be lost. So there's a major drawback when enabling this, right?
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-29 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-24 8:26 [PATCHv2 1/2] nl80211: vendor-cmd: qca: add command for ap power save Venkateswara Naralasetty
2020-08-24 8:26 ` [PATCHv2 2/2] ath11k: Add ap power save support Venkateswara Naralasetty
2021-01-27 18:02 ` Kalle Valo
2021-01-27 18:14 ` Kalle Valo
2020-09-28 11:24 ` [PATCHv2 1/2] nl80211: vendor-cmd: qca: add command for ap power save Johannes Berg
2020-09-29 7:40 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2020-09-29 8:04 ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-29 12:39 ` vnaralas
2020-10-21 17:19 ` Kalle Valo
2020-10-22 8:00 ` Arend Van Spriel
2020-10-22 8:05 ` Arend Van Spriel
2020-10-23 3:47 ` vnaralas
2020-11-02 19:44 ` Kalle Valo
2020-11-06 10:41 ` Johannes Berg
2020-11-17 11:23 ` vnaralas
2020-12-23 12:46 ` Jouni Malinen
2021-01-15 10:10 ` Johannes Berg
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