On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Its all implemented in firmware. Luis -- 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
