Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com ([209.85.218.213]:40212 "EHLO mail-bw0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752876AbZFRMdn (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:33:43 -0400 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so1022422bwz.37 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:33:45 -0700 (PDT) To: Johannes Berg Cc: Ramesh R , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Power save / 11v support feature References: <933839.92475.qm@web54506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <1245257582.31588.34.camel@johannes.local> From: Kalle Valo Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:33:42 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1245257582.31588.34.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Wed\, 17 Jun 2009 18\:53\:02 +0200") Message-ID: <877hz990wp.fsf@litku.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:09 -0700, Ramesh R wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am interested to work on the power save / 11v support. Is someone already working on this? > > In what sense would you want to work on it? I mean, on what in > particular? 11v support probably needs firmware support first so unless > you have a device you can hack for that you're not going to be able to > do much ... ar9170 comes to mind, but doesn't really have powersaving > anyway. > > And just general powersaving, what actually remains to be done? Could > look into supporting uAPSD on station side, I guess? Yes, at least client mode U-APSD is needed. And I'm sure there's room for improvements. -- Kalle Valo