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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rewriting powersave
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:43:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739dr9s3o.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320929045.3967.52.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Thu\, 10 Nov 2011 13\:44\:05 +0100")

Hi Johannes,

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> Since clearly it is possible to implement this in the lower layers, I'm
> thinking we should provide an implementation that the drivers can use to
> implement powersave and be in category 4 from mac80211's POV.

I think this is the way to go, even I was skeptic when you first
mentioned about. We really need to make mac80211 powersave
implementation more simple and this is a clean way to do it. And I
would assume that all new (sane) hardware designs belong to category 4
so this would only affect existing drivers.

-- 
Kalle Valo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-10 12:44 rewriting powersave Johannes Berg
2011-11-10 13:37 ` Johannes Berg
2011-11-14  5:43 ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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