[PATCH v5 1/3] nl80211: Add support for beacon tx mode

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2021-08-10 14:02, Maharaja Kennadyrajan wrote:
> On 2021-08-10 15:44, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2021-08-10 10:56, Maharaja Kennadyrajan wrote:
>>> User can configure the below beacon tx mode
>>> 1. Staggered mode and 2. Burst mode while bring-up the AP
>>> or MESH.
>>> 
>>> Beacons can be sent out in burst(continuously in a single shot
>>> one after another) or staggered (equally spread out over beacon
>>> interval) mode.
>>> 
>>> Set the beacon_tx_mode as 1 for Staggered mode and 2 for
>>> burst mode.
>> What's the advantage of one over the other? When and why would the user
>> choose a different mode other than the default?
>> 
> [Maha]: In the multi-vap scenario and default or staggered mode,
> tx failure of the packets will happen if the packets duration
> is greater than the beacon interval between the two vaps.
> In case of burst mode it works, where during retry it transmits
> the packet.
It still seems to me like something that the driver should detect and
handle internally without user configuration, based on number of VAPs
and maybe multicast/beacon rate (since the packet duration issue will be
worse with CCK rates).

- Felix