Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:35365 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751348AbYKCRuQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:50:16 -0500 Subject: Re: No ProbeResp - assume out of range From: Johannes Berg To: Felix Fietkau Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Tomas Winkler , Michael Buesch , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Kalle Valo In-Reply-To: <490F2B6C.9090002@openwrt.org> (sfid-20081103_174852_988997_5757C55B) 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> (sfid-20081103_174852_988997_5757C55B) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-kTaZ9hFraIQ/7Hh3XiOR" Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:50:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1225734605.3619.39.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20081103_185022_297275_376F55BF) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-kTaZ9hFraIQ/7Hh3XiOR Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= =20 > 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 :) johannes --=-kTaZ9hFraIQ/7Hh3XiOR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJDznJAAoJEKVg1VMiehFY6xwP/2yNGu1DCDkr34n774n2cFNV RcI8B7hJQ2k1ST/L4hi7XOHB72Cj6X8vdY3p1IyrA41y5LCmbALaAzYtVWBwm7wf i7DPZNla2VDpVCpfpbFdywo3kAQx0DO1aCePzG4MZxcqAoDhiQKXKPPi2O/RsoV4 458QKxZYQkxGIYwGTM9dRz5XpbnYAvOGxPe8gMZDKszOek4wd4JITgM9rwTcizOB wrBzz9p29K1j7G+km1UmiKkOwhzJZXEjQRStdjq9Bo8qZsC/UV5W5dQrGb6vICC8 3R33HhA6FRJc354CrKJwySWEDutgNJ3Sht2FrSYTbRAaQf0hnk4fIjT3jXx94k4r PQ5MTnm1w8r/YTjf8UzorP7B0UCNP4lghm6Pp0HK3zLagzVPHaFZ6USu49O/5AQM lqc2/qeTgTNuWYx/yPqqJe5LW4zTbFb36CvBEx6exq6gWBAYd22cm5nVk6hwhCHd XaiJ1ZboFqJkroLolrNszqYOBjGLzpq5cAQrjwmIgX4DhgAHGXzP0ud6omBSU3aV NxS6JVpeTT41HA7J8N9LwP2LN1OTUizltD+uORTPxJbdv4pB6GoUYKO5diRBWy4G zgPRHI8Dm+N/6ry5BNTDJ7OvwOYzfcvr2NCz4T1/yh6nTLfT6A+TvhLqpewJl/rS 8JwF/a43ZZLT7rqPd7oS =3BYJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kTaZ9hFraIQ/7Hh3XiOR--