Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 :) I need it for power saving so I definitely have to implement it, unless someone else is faster :) I have few other things on my backlog (eg. roaming and PSM timeout), but after I have finished those I'll start working on beacon filtering. -- 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
