From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from purkki.adurom.net ([80.68.90.206]:58019 "EHLO purkki.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751693Ab1KNFnZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:43:25 -0500 To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rewriting powersave References: <1320929045.3967.52.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> From: Kalle Valo Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:43:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1320929045.3967.52.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Thu\, 10 Nov 2011 13\:44\:05 +0100") Message-ID: <8739dr9s3o.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (sfid-20111114_064328_504819_32048CA2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Johannes, Johannes Berg 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