Re: [PATCH v3] mac80211: add PS flag to bss_conf

[Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 12:33 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote:
> Currently, ps mode is indicated per device (rather than
> per interface), which doesn't make a lot of sense.
> 
> Moreover, there are subtle bugs caused by the inability
> to indicate ps change along with other changes
> (e.g. when the AP deauth us, we'd like to indicate
> CHANGED_PS | CHANGED_ASSOC, as changing PS before
> notifying about disassociation will result in null-packets
> being sent (if IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS) while
> the sta is already disconnected.)
> 
> Keep the current per-device notifications, and add
> parallel per-vif notifications.
> 
> In order to keep it simple, the per-device ps and
> the per-vif ps are orthogonal - the per-vif ps
> configuration is determined only by the user
> configuration (enable/disable) and the connection
> state, and is not affected by other vifs state and
> (temporary) dynamic_ps/offchannel operations
> (unlike per-device ps).

Applied, thanks.

johannes

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