Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:49757 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756872AbYGOIMd (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:12:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: make listen_interval be configurable by low level driver From: Johannes Berg To: Kalle Valo Cc: Tomas Winkler , linville@tuxdriver.com, yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87fxqcoaue.fsf@nokia.com> References: <1216038684-29725-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1216038684-29725-2-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <1216039127.11189.15.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240807140546w4f08e32l59ed88dfa1b86403@mail.gmail.com> <87fxqcoaue.fsf@nokia.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XhKPSZR/yVaNh/j5VDay" Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:12:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1216109543.23746.21.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080715_101253_271661_EB8B966B) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-XhKPSZR/yVaNh/j5VDay Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > This stuff is very much hardware dependent, I don't deny that, but > still I would assume that the basic principles are almost the same. We > just need to come up with a good interface for the drivers. Sure, it's > more work now, but if we don't do it, PSM support will eventually get > really messy because all drivers do it somehow differently. I agree. > > I really don't know what other vendors do and user should not guess > > this. >=20 > Yes, for the user this is too difficult, but I think the driver > shouldn't be making the decision either. So mac80211 stack would be > the most logical choice, and it could be make the decisions based on > user input (or something like that). Well, the user may want to make a choice based on the latency. Or, ideally, we would detect that they're using voice and want lower latency. Or something like that. johannes --=-XhKPSZR/yVaNh/j5VDay Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJIfFvjAAoJEKVg1VMiehFY9n0P/jrTr45BCmoUzggtBYCBfPsC ill9wPpMI1mqAB4HAqcpvR1kP2axXE26isgMcvByECW5lJ/fNkdFiA4KnnoFNpt3 acWZFTRlX/FMS0/Uj+CB23mUlxYyHYmxtyt5Vng669DmvklsJVhDISxtLxsTX8lB 6hIi8ngk4DZhft/hXAD6b2FzJecPWJcI8wAuWaBVhvVr6QQcgSs04viG0ZCau3Mh +DYFkzNOtSeLRtuhxctZ6StxNdkO1LaP7vYpHIxnTPX5aLSRhIHtvWS+Iz4rc69u lkbc1jsrNYcW3mcAi6fW8u/dxrz5kxSpLqtXKDq62Fg+EvWUXduwBu61fVePmDIk 29r5OVhkBe2pXBbaMRnwO6XXsELsLKLlR8I5XIhdrhEhbCZKS5yX2y++xqhUGM9o kmcJZ9JFtRh5MaMV8RwAaYrWgi+B0VSx0FeisT9ZzL/LZvIGurpYSF8bLv0r1yl/ 4+B1DMWBmfpHGo6tqIQBC26FMD83/jYrgdKQeVy5u8pfyFFghX+13OfME41pXeZR qvVLPMzzesHms9wr9eWGhL3yLDwl+fPFeCK/G9LXD7MgqgANv3CTLLpfTBy/5w0N QD295bKnCw2Fn8bUJaVUIW6jzCQOsG8AcCcJiVKpPhLBdlPuU0W4e0MYfdJnIQes Zp5TdynrMtBgaYJ2nzDg =0rOB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XhKPSZR/yVaNh/j5VDay--