Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. Yeah, latency might be a good choise for the user. Also it would be nice to be able to say if packet loss is acceptable. For example, I have heard cases where DTIMs are skipped just to save power in the expense of loosing some of the broadcast and multicast frames. > Or, ideally, we would detect that they're using voice and want lower > latency. Or something like that. In that case U-APSD needs to be considered as well. This PSM stuff will be challenging... -- 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
