Hi, I think you are mixing up the two sets of patches which I'm working on, which seem to have ended up with confusingly similar names. Sorry about that. The connection quality monitoring stuff is configurable via nl80211. This feature, the connection monitoring in hardware, is only configured via the mac80211 flag IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR, so no netlink configuration here. The main difference in functionality between hw and host connection monitoring is, I think, power consumption - the host cpu needs to work less if the hardware is handling this. -Juuso On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 10:51 +0100, ext Holger Schurig wrote: > > The wl1271 has a feature which handles the connection monitor logic > > in hardware, basically sending periodically nullfunc frames and reporting > > to the host if AP is lost, after attempting to recover by sending > > probe-requests to the AP. > > Hmm, do you really need to make it configurable? > > * works the wl1271 firmware better with this set? > * or better when unset? > * or is it a "depends on" type answer? > > As far as I understood you, it works better if the firmware detects the > connection loss and when mac80211 doesn't interfere. If this understanding is > true, then configuring this via nl80211 seems to be the wrong thing. Instead, > you should tell mac80211 about your wishes when registering your driver > against mac80211. -- 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
