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Re: Thoughts about mac80211 client PS implementation

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:27 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:

BTW who defines "Dynamic Power Save"? Is there a standard approach or
more an implementation approach to the concept of doing PS while
active?

>> PS should be disabled while associated and running software scan, and
>> naturally re-enabled after the scan has finished. I assume hardware
>> scanning implementations are clever enough to disable PS when scanning
>> and we don't have to worry about that case.

BTW we need to check if in ath5k/ath9k if the beacon miss interrupt
will actually be triggered *if* the beacon filter is *off*. Not sure
about this yet. Also I'm not sure if triggering scanning will enable
beaconing filter in our hardware if its off and then disable it after
scanning too.

  Luis
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