> Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> writes: > > > On 2019-01-29 13:07, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >>> On 2019-01-29 12:47, Kalle Valo wrote: > >>>> Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> writes: > >>>> > >>>>> We can configure beaconing, but without TBTT interrupt we > >>>>> can not support PS buffering. This can be added later using > >>>>> kernel hrtimer, if we can keep it in sycn with device timer. > >>>>> > >>>>> I tested AP and IBSS modes. > >>>> > >>>> So how does this work reliably so that there's no packet loss with > >>>> clients using power save? > >>> > >>> There will be multicast packet loss for clients using power save. > >> > >> Isn't that a problem? At least as a normal user I would very frustrated > >> if sometimes my connection work and sometimes not, for example if I'm > >> trying discover devices from my network. Hopefully nobody won't use USB > >> devices for any real AP stuff, but still enabling something which we > >> know doesn't work realiably is concerning. > > > > I agree. Maybe we should leave out the flag for AP mode in this patch > > until we have PS buffering and leave the rest of the code intact. > > At least for me that sounds good.
We can support ps buffering in AP as well using a hrtimer. In this way we can reuse most of the existing code Regards, Lorenzo > > -- > Kalle Valo
