[PATCH] wpa_supplicant, nl80211: ieee80211 power save support

[Jouni Malinen]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 03:10:49PM +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> > "p2p_set ps <0/1>" can be used to enable/disable legacy PS.
> >
> > I added an initial set_p2p_powersave() implementation for nl80211, so
> > the enabling/disabling part should now be available and I don't think we
> > need the additional commands from this patch.
> >
> What in case we don't support p2p then?

That command should work even if P2P is not supported (but it may need
to be built in wpa_supplicant to actually get the ctrl_iface part for
this).

> This commands were very usefull during features veryfication with/without PS.
> Currently we enabled this by default in the driver.

Why did you do this through wpa_supplicant and not with, say, iw
power_save command?

> I also saw some implementation that disable/enabled PS in android
> environtment "DRIVER POWERMODE" - why, I am not sure. I can suspect,
> they enable PS after will get IP address from DHCP. With some APs
> there are problems with getting IP address via DHCP when PS enabled.
> Seems some workaround activated from usermode.

"DRIVER POWERMODE" can now be redirected to use set_p2p_powersave() to
avoid the driver_cmd(). There seems to be GETPOWER, too, which would
need something else if it is really used.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA