From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Zhu Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
"Tomas Winkler" <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Power saving on mac80211
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:23:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzb7j0uy.fsf@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890810191846h46a6b35br4ad61803a25bdf23@mail.gmail.com> (ext Luis R. Rodriguez's message of "Sun\, 19 Oct 2008 18\:46\:28 -0700")
Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Right. But we need to program the chip to tell the chip "hey please tell
>>> me if you haven't seen a beacon in X seconds".
>>
>> Ah, you mean that timeout. Sorry, I forgot that one altogether. Yes,
>> we definitely need that timeout.
>
> Is this to configure the firmware to report beacon misses so that in
> those cases we can inform mac80211?
Yes.
> And to let mac80211 be aware/be able to set this as a tunable
> parameter?
Yes.
> I wanted to note intel hardware seems to handle parsing beacons in
> firmware when is PS mode already and I have no clue when it would
> inform mac80211 of a beacon miss and if it does it. Tomas?
Oh, cool. I'm not familiar with iwlwifi so I would appreciate any
pointers to the sources so that I could take a look at the
implementation.
Sorry for the short answers, Monday morning...
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-18 1:10 Power saving on mac80211 Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-18 1:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-18 1:45 ` Bob Copeland
2008-10-19 5:41 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-19 7:24 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-19 10:26 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-19 11:00 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-19 16:48 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-19 18:12 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-19 18:49 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-20 1:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-20 5:23 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2008-10-20 6:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-20 6:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-20 8:24 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-10-20 5:23 ` Zhu Yi
2008-10-23 2:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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