Johannes Berg wrote: > > Is the mc bit > > checking done only on enabling power save? if set and mc packets are received, > > how does it automatically go back to sleep and wouldn't there be any conflict > > between mac80211 and the hw regarding power state since mac80211 is not aware > > of the mc bit induced state change? > I don't think there would be a conflict. mac80211's CONF_PS is always > only "go to sleep if you can", so receiving multicast traffic would > obviously imply not being able to go to sleep. When mac80211 then unsets > the CONF_PS flag you'd just not go back to sleep after being awake for > MC traffic. How does the mac80211 know if the hw is receiving mc traffic or not and unset the CONF_PS flag accordingly? Am I missing something basic here? Maybe p54 (stlc45xx) has the answer for how it goes back to sleep after mc traffic. Vivek. -- 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
