On 06/13/2012 11:50 PM, Pedersen, Thomas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 02:56:26PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> Funnily enough I don't have any idea how ath6kl has implemented this >> feature, but in theory this feature is useful also for the current >> normal scan (when the firmware/hardware supports it) as we can avoid >> host wakeups. If there are 10 APs, but all are below the RSSI threshold, >> we will have only 1 host wakeup (scan ready event) opposed to 11 wakeups >> (10 AP found events plus 1 scan ready event). > > But can the host even sleep on normal scans? It's "implementation defined", the good ones can and bad ones can't :) But from our (wireless developer) perspective we don't need to care about that, our job is to minimise all possible host wakeup events (timers, interrupts etc) as much as possible. That will allow the host to sleep more. Kalle -- 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
