From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: Enhancements to dynamic power save.
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:17:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ah76fax.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228133121.3478.27.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Mon\, 01 Dec 2008 13\:05\:21 +0100")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 17:17 -0800, Vivek Natarajan wrote:
>> This patch is based on Kalle's initial RFC patches on dynamic power save.
>> Since ath9k/ath5k,stlc45xx and b43 need the driver to send the null
>> frame, it is appropriate to do it from mac80211.
>> This patch enables mac80211 to send a null frame and also to
>> check for tim in the beacon if power save is enabled.
>
> One thing I forgot, do we need a special iwlwifi flag to turn this off?
> Or can iwlwifi be programmed to let the host handle this (*), which
> might be beneficial for interoperability and uniformity purposes?
Having the null frame handling in firmware is faster and we might get
some power savings from that. But is the saving observable, that's an
another question :)
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-01 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-02 1:17 [RFC] mac80211: Enhancements to dynamic power save Vivek Natarajan
2008-12-01 11:53 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-01 15:08 ` Vivek Natarajan
2008-12-01 15:55 ` Kalle Valo
2008-12-01 15:52 ` Kalle Valo
2008-12-01 23:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-01 12:05 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-01 16:17 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-12-01 17:00 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-12-02 12:58 ` Vivek Natarajan
2008-12-02 14:29 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-12-01 15:42 ` Kalle Valo
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2008-12-23 4:44 Vivek Natarajan
2008-12-22 17:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-12-23 12:50 ` Vivek Natarajan
2008-12-23 20:33 ` Kalle Valo
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