Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Right. But we need to program the chip to tell the chip "hey please tell >>> me if you haven't seen a beacon in X seconds". >> >> Ah, you mean that timeout. Sorry, I forgot that one altogether. Yes, >> we definitely need that timeout. > > Is this to configure the firmware to report beacon misses so that in > those cases we can inform mac80211? Yes. > And to let mac80211 be aware/be able to set this as a tunable > parameter? Yes. > I wanted to note intel hardware seems to handle parsing beacons in > firmware when is PS mode already and I have no clue when it would > inform mac80211 of a beacon miss and if it does it. Tomas? Oh, cool. I'm not familiar with iwlwifi so I would appreciate any pointers to the sources so that I could take a look at the implementation. Sorry for the short answers, Monday morning... -- 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
