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Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] mt76x02: Beacon support for USB

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:22:55PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:07:48AM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > > >> We can support ps buffering in AP as well using a hrtimer. In this way we
> > > >> can reuse most of the existing code
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, but there is issue to address, since kernel timer and device TBT
> > > > timer are independed, they possibly can get out of sync after some time,
> > > > for example few hours or days. So there is need to prevent/fix this
> > > > somehow.
> > > We could read the TSF timer value from the hardware and sync the hrtimer
> > > against that.
> > 
> > Ok then. I'll implement hrtimer solution and repost this set. Patch
> > 6 will no longer be necessery.
> 
> This require more changes than I expected to allow programming registers
> from atomic context for mt76-usb. So I'll repost without AP support for
> now.

There are more obstacles here. On USB we do not have PSD queue available 
via endpoinds. I have some solutions to this problem, but non of them work
satisfactory so far. Still experimenting ...
 
Stanislaw



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