Re: AP (Master Mode) of wireless drivers

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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> "For AP mode, it must
> honour IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM or set
> 		IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING and use the
> ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() function"
> 		
> see:
>  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/API

Yup.

> However, I found out that in wireless-testing, this is the situation:
> 
> 	
> IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM appears only in rt2x00mac.c

It's also in b43 and p54. I think your grep-fu is weak ;)

> There is a call to ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() only in:
> 1) drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/beacon.c
> 2) wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
> 
> According to this , b43/b43legacy (Broadcom chips), Intel ipw2200,

ipw2200 is a very special case, and it doesn't use mac80211 so that
constant above won't occur in it anyway. Not sure if anybody has
recently tried, I'd almost assume it's broken since the project hasn't
been maintained forever, afaict.

johannes

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