Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:56 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Here's my proposal how to implement beacon filtering in mac80211. The >> basic idea is simple, the driver enables filtering whenever mac80211 >> enables power save and the driver calls ieee80211_beacon_loss() >> whenever hardware informs about beacon loss. >> >> I have tested this with stlc45xx (with beacon filtering) and iwl3945 >> (without beacon filtering) and based on simple tests this seems to >> work. For reference I'll send the stlc45xx patch as a followup. > > Something I've been wondering about now is how to populate the exclude > list (which would probably be smarter as an include list, but anyway). Yeah, an include list would be a lot better. > This actually affects the entire stack, take for example the BSS load > element, which could potentially change frequently. Unless > wpa_supplicant would want to use it for roaming, we could ignore it. > > However, how do we know which elements the various pieces of the stack > need? I think we can just start with a fixed list and start improving that. Or did you think of creating the list dynamically? -- 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
