From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from purkki.adurom.net ([80.68.90.206]:53674 "EHLO purkki.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753203Ab0INWVg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:21:36 -0400 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Paul Stewart , Amod Bodas Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] mac80211: send last 3/5 probe requests as unicast References: <1284474071-8404-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <87mxrk5610.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> From: Kalle Valo Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:21:35 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Luis R. Rodriguez's message of "Tue\, 14 Sep 2010 15\:15\:18 -0700") Message-ID: <87iq2855lc.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: >> Beginning of this year I sent patches to use null funcs. Unfortunately >> I had to drop them due to time constraints. >> >> Also a major power consumption imporovement from using null func >> frames is that we don't have to trigger dynamic power save timer >> during the poll. Just send the frame with PSM bit set, wait for ack >> and go immeaditely back to sleep. So instead of having radios enabled >> for example 100 ms per frame, we can do it in just 1 ms. > > Neat, do you have those patches dug up in a directory somewhere or > should I dig the archives? They are here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=126644065026466&w=2 But I'm sure they don't apply anymore. You interested about patch 2: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=126644065926485&w=2 -- Kalle Valo