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Re: dynamic ps + offchannel mgmt_tx + HW RoC

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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 18:23 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When the HW is in PS and Dynamic PS is enabled we are dropping
>> all the offchannel frames. Sequence is as below
>>
>> if hw is in PS: stop_queues reason=PS, queue dynamic_ps_disable_work
>> send Offchannel mgmt_tx
>> drop the packet because offchanel + stop_reasons[q] !=0
>>
>> How should we handle this? SW RoC is handling this
>> by checking for offchannel and bringing the HW out of PS before
>> handing the packet to TX path, so it works fine.
>
> You should handle this by not doing such a non-sensical thing and
> finally implementing powersave properly in the driver :)
i don't see any issues in the powersave w.r.t driver. Isn't it a
valid case? you meant implementing dynamic_ps?
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