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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:34:21 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "Kalle Valo" <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: Power saving on mac80211
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> Right. But we need to program the chip to tell the chip "hey please tell
>>>> me if you haven't seen a beacon in X seconds".
>>>
>>> Ah, you mean that timeout. Sorry, I forgot that one altogether. Yes,
>>> we definitely need that timeout.
>>
>> Is this to configure the firmware to report beacon misses so that in
>> those cases we can inform mac80211?
>
> Yes.
>
>> And to let mac80211 be aware/be able to set this as a tunable
>> parameter?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I wanted to note intel hardware seems to handle parsing beacons in
>> firmware when is PS mode already and I have no clue when it would
>> inform mac80211 of a beacon miss and if it does it. Tomas?
>
> Oh, cool. I'm not familiar with iwlwifi so I would appreciate any
> pointers to the sources so that I could take a look at the
> implementation.

Its all implemented in firmware.

  Luis