Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: mesh beacon includes TIM IE

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 13:16 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:45:47PM -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> >> Even though we don't currently implement PS for mesh points, the
> >> standard asks us to include a TIM element in beacons. Include an empty
> >> element for now.
> >
> > Is it allowed to not support PS in this type of case? AP does not have
> > such option..
> >
> 
> You're right, it doesn't look like PS support is optional. The
> standard requires us to respect the PS states of peers. Support for
> this will require some work, but in the meantime, we can include a TIM
> element indicating no frames buffered here, as well as a Mesh Awake
> Window which never expires.
> 
> Otherwise, until we implement proper PS, might it be better not to
> include the TIM IE at all?

Or just not pretend to support the latest mesh draft ...

I don't think PS support can be hard. We have all of it in AP mode
anyway, so you just need to generalise that a bit, maybe refactor like I
said in my other email, and you should be able to get it up & running
pretty quickly?

johannes