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Re: [PATCHv2] mac80211: Add interface for driver to temporarily disable dynamic ps

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On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 20:57 +0200, ext John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:01:32AM +0300, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> > This mechanism introduced in this patch applies (at least) for hardware
> > designs using a single shared antenna for both WLAN and BT. In these designs,
> > the antenna must be toggled between WLAN and BT.
> > 
> > In those hardware, managing WLAN co-existence with Bluetooth requires WLAN
> > full power save whenever there is Bluetooth activity in order for WLAN to be
> > able to periodically relinquish the antenna to be used for BT. This is because
> > BT can only access the shared antenna when WLAN is idle or asleep.
> 
> Maybe it is just me, but
> 
> void ieee80211_enable_dyn_ps(struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
> void ieee80211_disable_dyn_ps(struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
> 
> would make more sense than
> 
> void ieee80211_disable_dyn_ps(struct ieee80211_vif *vif, bool disable)

Well.. can't argue with that ;)

I'll submit v3 shortly.

-Juuso

> John


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