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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:09:08 +0200
From: Peter Stuge <stuge-rt2400@cdy.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Rt2400-devel] suspend/resume support in mac80211
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:44:12PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > we have recently been struggling with getting suspend/resume
> > working in rt2x00. A few questions:
> 
> There is no suspend/resume support in mac80211.

Wow, that's really bad news.

Are there plans for it?


> > 3. Shouldn't mac80211 be made suspend/resume-aware
> 
> I think we should have a API call to mac80211 that suspends the
> stack (saves the state etc..)

Would it be enough to add a suspended state and functions for
entering/exiting the state? On transitions, the appropriate driver
level functions are called of course.


> and a call the resumes (reassociates, re-handshakes...).
> But that's probably not that easy to implement, as parts of this
> does happen in userspace.

Shouldn't that be handled by hotplugging then?


(I'm not on linux-wireless, but rt2400-devel, no need to cc if you
crosspost.)

//Peter