On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 01:20 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.
>> net> wrote:
>> >
>> > There is, btw, perhaps a different way - just fix the damn stuff.
>> >
>> > Requires moving everything into ifmgd rather than local, and then
>> > perhaps if only a single managed interface exists mirroring its
>> > state
>> > into the existing driver calls etc.
>> >
>> > It'd still be a big task, and I don't see much advantage over just
>> > reimplementing it.
>> Yes, requires quite an effort and also need to handle lot of cases.
>> Instead, why don't we make the default as complete PS offload
>> and force the drivers who need to use mac80211 PS negate these
>> in the register_hw? That way we are clear about the intentions.
>
> I don't really see a big advantage, and it'd create churn in a lot of
> drivers. Maybe documenting it with the flags that we really think you
> should set them or something, or making the powersave DOC section
> mention this would be good, but beyond that I don't think it'd be a
> good idea.
that's fine with me.
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