On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 15:31 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: >> This patch makes listen_interval configurable by low level driver. > > I'm not sure we we really want that. > > With this, you're again putting more features and more decision making > processes with the driver, I would much prefer this to be worked out in > mac80211 so we can do it across all drivers. > > If this is a knob that should be adjusted then we want to enable users > to do it, and if it isn't then we can put a value into mac80211 and fix > it. Having drivers make these kinds of decisions is very bad for uniform > wireless behaviour. The same story as with beacon interval. This is for the power management. It's really hw dependent for how many beacons we can stay dormant. I really don't know what other vendors do and user should not guess this. Thanks Tomas > johannes > -- 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
