On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 01:20 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions. >> net> wrote: >> > >> > There is, btw, perhaps a different way - just fix the damn stuff. >> > >> > Requires moving everything into ifmgd rather than local, and then >> > perhaps if only a single managed interface exists mirroring its >> > state >> > into the existing driver calls etc. >> > >> > It'd still be a big task, and I don't see much advantage over just >> > reimplementing it. >> Yes, requires quite an effort and also need to handle lot of cases. >> Instead, why don't we make the default as complete PS offload >> and force the drivers who need to use mac80211 PS negate these >> in the register_hw? That way we are clear about the intentions. > > I don't really see a big advantage, and it'd create churn in a lot of > drivers. Maybe documenting it with the flags that we really think you > should set them or something, or making the powersave DOC section > mention this would be good, but beyond that I don't think it'd be a > good idea. that's fine with me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
