On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > if we start dealing with beacons in NIC, i think this will impact roaming scenarios, beacouse in most of roaming algorithms signal strength of beacon received played a pivot rolef and ignoring this at NIC this will not allow client to take judicious decisions. bharat -- 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
