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Re: [PATCHv2] nl80211: Provide TDLS link state

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On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 13:19 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:

> > Is it really that bad to demand the firmware notify the host? It's not
> > like this is a very frequent event, and if querying is supported then
> > notification can't be all that much more difficult.
> 
> I think firmware vendors are coming to the point of view that they
> must minimize host processor wakeups.  They may argue from that
> perspective that the firmware should divulge such information only on
> request.

That's reasonable, but the request could also be "list all TDLS peers
please", right? Then you could still implement it very easily. It
doesn't have to be an event.

johannes

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