Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134]:40024 "EHLO mgw-mx09.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752665AbYKDG7M (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2008 01:59:12 -0500 To: "Johannes Berg" Cc: Felix Fietkau , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Tomas Winkler , Michael Buesch , "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: No ProbeResp - assume out of range References: <43e72e890811021305k19e9a314i6400cd1a759b3d00@mail.gmail.com> <200811022303.54476.mb@bu3sch.de> <1ba2fa240811021442o178c98a1pa920b863b60d9293@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890811021458h1444d350v33a5e5b984b76495@mail.gmail.com> <20081103002558.GA14153@tesla> <490F2B6C.9090002@openwrt.org> <1225734605.3619.39.camel@johannes.berg> From: Kalle Valo Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:58:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1225734605.3619.39.camel@johannes.berg> (ext Johannes Berg's message of "Mon\, 03 Nov 2008 18\:50\:05 +0100") Message-ID: <87tzaoasfi.fsf@nokia.com> (sfid-20081104_075920_958161_9115E997) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:48 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > OK I found the issue with ath5k, no beacons were being passed at all, I'll post >> > a patch. >> Why not configure the beacon miss interrupt instead of passing beacons to >> mac80211 in STA mode? That should save some battery on Laptops because it >> won't cause 10 extra wakeups every second. > > We have no way to indicate to mac80211 that the hw is watching beacons, > so that'd be equivalent to just dropping them. We've discussed such API, > and I hope somebody will implement it :) I need it for power saving so I definitely have to implement it, unless someone else is faster :) I have few other things on my backlog (eg. roaming and PSM timeout), but after I have finished those I'll start working on beacon filtering. -- Kalle Valo