[PATCHv2 1/2] nl80211: vendor-cmd: qca: add command for ap power save

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Sep 29 04:04:14 EDT 2020


On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 10:40 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 13:56 +0530, Venkateswara Naralasetty wrote:
> > > AP power save feature is to save power in AP mode, where AP goes
> > > to power save mode when no stations associate to it and comes out
> > > of power save when any station associate to AP.
> > 
> > Why do you think this requires a vendor command? I mean, that seems like
> > fairly reasonable - even by default - behaviour?
> 
> I have not studied the details, but doesn't AP power save break normal
> functionality? For example, I would guess probe requests from clients
> would be lost. So there's a major drawback when enabling this, right?

Not the way it's described above?

johannes




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