Re: [PATCH ] zd1211rw: enable master mode. (wireless-testing)

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:00:46PM -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:30:19PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:01 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> > > Is there some way we could take that into account?  I'm sure there
> > > are users who would prefer to have an AP (i.e. their laptop) that
> > > can't support PS clients rather than not having an AP at all.
> >
> > That's a good question. The distinction here is between empowering users
> > to do the wrong thing (AP without proper PS support) and enforcing the
> > right thing (with the consequence of complete loss of AP functionality).
> > The issue I see here is that users will see "ohh shiny, AP support"
> > without knowing that it doesn't actually really support it. Not sure
> > which side of the line we want to stand on, I prefer the correctness
> > side but I can see arguments for the other side, would just like to have
> > users know. Maybe we could have some way to tell hostapd this and then
> > have hostapd print a huge warning about it when started up?
> 
> How about making it Kconfigable for broken AP support and add the
> warning there?

That is have something like CONFIG_MAC80211_AP_HALF_ASSED

  Luis