Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. This stuff is very much hardware dependent, I don't deny that, but still I would assume that the basic principles are almost the same. We just need to come up with a good interface for the drivers. Sure, it's more work now, but if we don't do it, PSM support will eventually get really messy because all drivers do it somehow differently. > I really don't know what other vendors do and user should not guess > this. Yes, for the user this is too difficult, but I think the driver shouldn't be making the decision either. So mac80211 stack would be the most logical choice, and it could be make the decisions based on user input (or something like that). -- Kalle Valo -- 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
