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Re: [Greenmesh] [ath9k] mesh powersave hardware sleep + wakeup

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On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 13:00 +0200, Marco Porsch wrote:

> Thus, I think we will need an additional/extended interface 
> mac80211<->driver here.
> 
> I see two possibilities:
> a) request the next wakeup time from mac80211 each time the hardware is 
> put to sleep (e.g. from ath9k_ps_restore).
> b) give a whole list of periodic wakeup events of all vif to the driver. 
> Then the driver is supposed to sort out the closest event.
> 
> What would be the better approach for such an interface? Or maybe a 
> completely different idea?

What time units would that be in, and how could you correlate them?

johannes

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