On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 10:33 -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 04:20:48PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 17:47 -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> >
> > > +static inline bool ieee80211_is_ps_disabled(struct ieee80211_conf *conf)
> >
> > > +static inline bool ieee80211_is_ps_enabled(struct ieee80211_conf *conf)
> >
> > Huh, is that worth the confusion? It seems !enabled should be the same
> > as disabled, but it's not quite the same, which might be confusing.
>
> In this patch there's no distinction, but after adding the off-channel
> powersave state there is -- disabled == !enabled && !offchannel.
I thought it was something like that, yeah.
> Actually one of the last bugs I fixed before sending these was a place
> where I had used disabled instead of !enabled, and the frames ended up
> with PM set when it shouldn't have been.
>
> I agree though that the distinction is confusing. Maybe some better
> state names are needed. Perhaps awake, offchannel, and doze?
I think what you really want is to distinguish between "HW can go to
powersave" and "PM bit should be set"? That's pretty much what your
CONF_PS_ENABLED and CONF_PS_OFFCHANNEL means, respectively, but maybe
putting it in different terms would make it less confusing?
> > > +/**
> > > + * ieee80211_set_ps_state - set device powersave state
> > > + *
> > > + * Sets the powersave state in the supplied device configuration to the
> > > + * specified state.
> > > + *
> > > + * @conf: device configuration
> > > + * @state: new powersave state. Must be one of the IEEE80211_CONF_PS_*
> > > + * flags from enum ieee80211_conf_flags.
> > > + */
> > > +static inline void ieee80211_set_ps_state(struct ieee80211_conf *conf,
> > > + u32 state)
> > > +{
> > > + conf->flags = (conf->flags & ~IEEE80211_CONF_PS_MASK) |
> > > + (state & IEEE80211_CONF_PS_MASK);
> > > +}
> >
> > I don't think the driver should do this, so the inline shouldn't be
> > here?
>
> That's true. Would moving it to ieee80211_i.h be appropriate, or is
> there somewhere better?
ieee80211_i.h is good
johannes
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