Libertas power saving mode?

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hi Michail,

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:04:13PM -0400, Michail Bletsas wrote:
> No you can't.
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> In infrastructure mode you can tell the access point to buffer 
> transmissions destined for you until you wake up.
> In mesh mode, you would have to tell everybody around you to do the same. 
> Even if you could do that (what happens if your neighbors are asleep?), 
> you would need extra buffers on the MPs which we don't  really have.

That is the only thing we can do to save power in mesh mode?? Nothing can 
be done??
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> M.
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> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo at kvack.org> 
> Sent by: libertas-dev-bounces at lists.infradead.org
> 07/08/2007 08:48 PM
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> Ronak Chokshi <rchokshi at marvell.com>
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> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo at kvack.org>, Luis Carlos Cobo 
> <luisca at cozybit.com>, javier at cozybit.com, libertas-dev at lists.infradead.org
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> Re: Libertas power saving mode?
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> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 05:28:41PM -0700, Ronak Chokshi wrote:
> > Marcelo,
> > Yes, you should be able to use this command but only when the device is
> > connected to an infrastructure network, i.e. associated to an AP. It
> > will not go into sleep when in mesh. That is the way the design is laid
> > out right from the beginning.
> 
> So if we're associated to an AP but on the mesh at the same time we can't 
> use the power saving mode?
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> > Thanks
> > Ronak
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marcelo Tosatti [mailto:marcelo at kvack.org] 
> > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 4:56 PM
> > To: javier at cozybit.com; Luis Carlos Cobo; Ronak Chokshi
> > Cc: libertas-dev at lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Libertas power saving mode?
> > 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I was wondering about using the Marvell sleep mode (CMD_802_11_PS_MODE
> > command), where the device sleeps between DTIM periods. The driver has
> > support for that.
> > 
> > Do you have any consideration regarding that? What about the mesh?
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