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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: move PHY things to debugfs
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:57:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172833038.3482.16.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E80064.6000200@warmcat.com>

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On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:45 +0000, Andy Green wrote:

> But if there is a better way for the stack to get unencrypted broadcasts 
> (that is all I really want, addr1->FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF packets) through to 
> usermode, which you would think might not actually require hardware 
> promisc on the hardware, then I am quite motivated to work on that.

Well, no, there isn't. When a station is in powersave mode it relies on
the access point to buffer packets for it, which it obviously won't do
with such packets as you're sending.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-01 18:34 [PATCH] mac80211: move PHY things to debugfs Johannes Berg
2007-03-01 18:54 ` Andy Green
2007-03-01 19:04   ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-01 19:07     ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-02  8:24       ` Andy Green
2007-03-02 10:16         ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-02 10:45           ` Andy Green
2007-03-02 10:57             ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-03-01 23:40 ` Johannes Berg

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