On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 22:13 +0530, Maharaja Kennadyrajan wrote: > AP power save feature is enabled when the driver and hardware > supports. If the driver suppots this feature then driver will > advertise this flag SUPPORTS_AP_PS to enable the AP power save > in mac80211. > > AP goes into the power save mode, if no stations are connected > and it will come out of power save as and when any of the station > associate to it. Also, during the power save tx chain mask is > reduced to 1x1 until the any station connects with more than > 1x1 chain mask. > All of that seems entirely transparent, similar to how mac80211 today reduces bandwidth of the AP interface (min_def in a chandef) - what's the point of doing all this infrastructure to make it configurable then? Why not always have it, and perhaps make some debugfs to turn it off for debugging/experiments? johannes
