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Re: [RFC PATCH] nl80211: Add support for dynamic ps timeout configuration

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On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 11:11 +0300, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> This adds support to configure the dynamic ps timeout via nl80211. The
> relevant attribute is added to NL80211_CMD_SET_POWER_SAVE.

I'm not sure we even want this. Can't we calculate an appropriate value
based on the beacon interval etc. instead?

johannes

> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/nl80211.h |    2 ++
>  net/wireless/nl80211.c  |   16 +++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/nl80211.h b/include/linux/nl80211.h
> index 2ea3ede..c5f12e7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nl80211.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nl80211.h
> @@ -864,6 +864,8 @@ enum nl80211_attrs {
>  
>  	NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_STATE_CHANGE,
>  
> +	NL80211_ATTR_PS_TIMEOUT,
> +
>  	/* add attributes here, update the policy in nl80211.c */
>  
>  	__NL80211_ATTR_AFTER_LAST,
> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> index df5505b..709bda3 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> @@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
>  	[NL80211_ATTR_PS_STATE] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
>  	[NL80211_ATTR_CQM] = { .type = NLA_NESTED, },
>  	[NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_STATE_CHANGE] = { .type = NLA_FLAG },
> +	[NL80211_ATTR_PS_TIMEOUT] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
>  };
>  
>  /* policy for the attributes */
> @@ -4682,6 +4683,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_power_save(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  	struct net_device *dev;
>  	u8 ps_state;
>  	bool state;
> +	int timeout = -1;
>  	int err;
>  
>  	if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PS_STATE]) {
> @@ -4696,6 +4698,14 @@ static int nl80211_set_power_save(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PS_TIMEOUT]) {
> +		timeout = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PS_TIMEOUT]);
> +		if (timeout < 0) {
> +			err = -EINVAL;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
>  	rtnl_lock();
>  
>  	err = get_rdev_dev_by_info_ifindex(info, &rdev, &dev);
> @@ -4710,11 +4720,14 @@ static int nl80211_set_power_save(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  	}
>  
>  	state = (ps_state == NL80211_PS_ENABLED) ? true : false;
> +	if (timeout < 0)
> +		timeout = wdev->ps_timeout;
>  
> -	if (state == wdev->ps)
> +	if (state == wdev->ps && timeout == wdev->ps_timeout)
>  		goto unlock_rdev;
>  
>  	wdev->ps = state;
> +	wdev->ps_timeout = timeout;
>  
>  	if (rdev->ops->set_power_mgmt(wdev->wiphy, dev, wdev->ps,
>  				      wdev->ps_timeout))
> @@ -4772,6 +4785,7 @@ static int nl80211_get_power_save(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  		ps_state = NL80211_PS_DISABLED;
>  
>  	NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_PS_STATE, ps_state);
> +	NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_PS_TIMEOUT, wdev->ps_timeout);
>  
>  	genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
>  	err = genlmsg_reply(msg, info);


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