Question on beacon-miss handling.

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Sun Jul 6 01:54:09 PDT 2014


On 07/05/2014 11:01 PM, Sujith Manoharan 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 ?

Maybe the driver should make this 0 instead of 2 then?

hw.h:#define TARGET_10X_BMISS_OFFLOAD_MAX_VDEV	2

That would save resources in the firmware.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Sujith
>


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