vnaralas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > On 2020-09-29 13:10, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 13:56 +0530, Venkateswara Naralasetty wrote: >>>> AP power save feature is to save power in AP mode, where AP goes >>>> to power save mode when no stations associate to it and comes out >>>> of power save when any station associate to AP. >>> >>> Why do you think this requires a vendor command? I mean, that seems >>> like >>> fairly reasonable - even by default - behaviour? >> >> I have not studied the details, but doesn't AP power save break normal >> functionality? For example, I would guess probe requests from clients >> would be lost. So there's a major drawback when enabling this, right? > > This AP power save feature will not break any functionality, Since one > chain is always active and all other chains will be disabled when this > feature is enabled. AP can still be able to beacon and receive probe > request from the clients. The only drawback is reduced network range > when this feature is enabled. Hence, we don't want to enable it by > default. Yeah, we really would not want to enable that by default. But what should be the path forward, a vendor command or a proper nl80211 command? Any opinions? -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
