Question on beacon-miss handling.

[Adrian Chadd]

On 5 July 2014 23:01, Sujith Manoharan <sujith at msujith.org> wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Think about it in terms of "minimising how much the host is woken up."
>>
>> That's what the target market of the STA firmware for this chip is
>> thinking about.
>
> I don't think beacon filtering is enabled for ath10k, which means
> all beacons are sent to mac80211 anyway. HW/FW connection monitoring
> (in STA mode) is also not enabled in ath10k, so mac80211's beacon loss/miss
> infrastructure is already used, no ?

Sure, but my response was just describing the "why" behind why the
firmware would want to be doing beacon offload processing.


-a