From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: No ProbeResp - assume out of range
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:58:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzaoasfi.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225734605.3619.39.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Mon\, 03 Nov 2008 18\:50\:05 +0100")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:48 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > OK I found the issue with ath5k, no beacons were being passed at all, I'll post
>> > a patch.
>> Why not configure the beacon miss interrupt instead of passing beacons to
>> mac80211 in STA mode? That should save some battery on Laptops because it
>> won't cause 10 extra wakeups every second.
>
> We have no way to indicate to mac80211 that the hw is watching beacons,
> so that'd be equivalent to just dropping them. We've discussed such API,
> and I hope somebody will implement it :)
I need it for power saving so I definitely have to implement it,
unless someone else is faster :) I have few other things on my backlog
(eg. roaming and PSM timeout), but after I have finished those I'll
start working on beacon filtering.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-02 21:05 No ProbeResp - assume out of range Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-02 22:03 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-02 22:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-02 22:52 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-02 22:42 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-11-02 22:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-03 0:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-03 16:48 ` Felix Fietkau
2008-11-03 17:50 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-04 5:32 ` Bharat Bhushan
2008-11-04 7:05 ` Kalle Valo
2008-11-04 6:58 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-11-04 11:17 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-04 12:43 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-03 7:19 ` Kalle Valo
2008-11-02 22:33 ` Davide Pesavento
2008-11-04 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-04 19:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-05 10:30 ` Kalle Valo
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