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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: make listen_interval be configurable by low level driver

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> 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 agree.

> > 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).

Well, the user may want to make a choice based on the latency. Or,
ideally, we would detect that they're using voice and want lower
latency. Or something like that.

johannes

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