From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, j@w1.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: enabling an AP that can't support fully PS clients (wireless-testing).
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:30:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1227558612.28878.1.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb3ff54b0811232344m77f979aaj79e9e965eefa325c@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:44 +0200, Rami Rosen wrote:
> This patch enables mac80211 to support the PS challenged mode when
> used in master mode.
> A new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_AP_PS_CHALLENGED, was added to
> nl80211_attrs; also a new member (ap_ps_challenged) was added to
> struct wiphy; and nl80211_send_wiphy() was adjusted accordingly.
>
> User space applications (like hostapd) should check the
> NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_AP_PS_CHALLENGED
> attribute and display a proper message, if it is set, to inform the
> users.
Maybe it would be better to require a switch to hostapd to enable
support for such devices? Messages are too easy to ignore.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-24 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 7:44 [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: enabling an AP that can't support fully PS clients (wireless-testing) Rami Rosen
2008-11-24 10:32 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-24 20:45 ` John W. Linville
2008-11-24 20:30 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-11-24 21:05 ` Jouni Malinen
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