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Re: No ProbeResp - assume out of range

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On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:48 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > OK I found the issue with ath5k, no beacons were being passed at all, I'll post
> > a patch.
> Why not configure the beacon miss interrupt instead of passing beacons to
> mac80211 in STA mode? That should save some battery on Laptops because it 
> won't cause 10 extra wakeups every second.

We have no way to indicate to mac80211 that the hw is watching beacons,
so that'd be equivalent to just dropping them. We've discussed such API,
and I hope somebody will implement it :)

johannes

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