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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 13/12] cfg80211/mac80211: allow management TX to not
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On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 08:09 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> >
> > For probe responses it can be useful to not wait for ACK
> > to save airtime, so allow userspace to request not waiting
> > with a new nl80211 flag.
> >
> > Since mac80211 needs to be updated for the new function
> > prototype anyway implement it right away -- it's just a
> > few lines of code.
> 
> Ah, nice!
> 
> I'll adjust my hostad patch to make use of this instead of the
> radiotap flag (or maybe both, need to look into this further).

If you just do the radiotap part I'll add the rest with my other
patchset.

johannes