From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi,
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] zd1211rw: enable an AP that can't support fully PS clients (wireless-testing).
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:35:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1227522918.3599.63.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb3ff54b0811232344t665fe6abp9ca2be85cfcbd855@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081124_084441_757639_7088C3E6)
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On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:44 +0200, Rami Rosen wrote:
> This patch enables master mode support in zd1211rw driver and enables
> it to support the PS challenged mode when used in master mode.
>
> It adds this functionality in the zd1211rw driver by adding support to
> master mode (NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) in zd_op_add_interface() and in
> zd_mac_alloc_hw() methods
> of drivers/net/wireless/zd_mac.c.
>
> In addition, the new boolean member of wiphy struct, ap_ps_challenged,
> is initialized to true in zd_mac_alloc_hw().
This is all fine, but I'm starting to wonder why we're doing this at
all. Have we actually determined that zd1211 cannot buffer mcast/bcast
frames at all? Might it be worth asking around in Zydas/Atheros?
johannes
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 7:44 [PATCH 2/2] zd1211rw: enable an AP that can't support fully PS clients (wireless-testing) Rami Rosen
2008-11-24 10:35 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-11-24 11:09 ` Rami Rosen
2008-11-24 11:21 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-24 11:38 ` Rami Rosen
2008-11-24 11:44 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-27 9:06 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-27 9:31 ` Rami Rosen
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