Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2019-01-29 13:07, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On 2019-01-29 12:47, Kalle Valo wrote: >>>> Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> >>>>> We can configure beaconing, but without TBTT interrupt we >>>>> can not support PS buffering. This can be added later using >>>>> kernel hrtimer, if we can keep it in sycn with device timer. >>>>> >>>>> I tested AP and IBSS modes. >>>> >>>> So how does this work reliably so that there's no packet loss with >>>> clients using power save? >>> >>> There will be multicast packet loss for clients using power save. >> >> Isn't that a problem? At least as a normal user I would very frustrated >> if sometimes my connection work and sometimes not, for example if I'm >> trying discover devices from my network. Hopefully nobody won't use USB >> devices for any real AP stuff, but still enabling something which we >> know doesn't work realiably is concerning. > > I agree. Maybe we should leave out the flag for AP mode in this patch > until we have PS buffering and leave the rest of the code intact. At least for me that sounds good. -- Kalle Valo
