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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, 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 15:45:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081124204531.GC3983@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227522732.3599.58.camel@johannes.berg>

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:32:12AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Jouni, thoughts about the naming? I proposed this to Rami but I'm not
> married to it, any better idea?

NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_AP_PS_UNSUPPORTED?

John
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-24 21:01 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 [this message]
2008-11-24 20:30 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-11-24 21:05   ` Jouni Malinen

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