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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Good news.

Really good news!

>> But that's not all, also multicast frames (including ARP broadcast)
>> are not buffered correctly. They are sent randomly instead of directly
>> after a DTIM beacon. Also Multicast bit is not set and DTIM is always
>> zero even though DTIM period is two.
>
> Actually, they were sent right away because we enqueued them to queue
> zero, not queue four.

Yeah, I meant randomly relative to a DTIM beacon.

> Please try the attached patches. I haven't implemented the set_tim()
> callback yet, but the device should now wake up for multicast traffic,
> not for unicast yet. The patches work for me on a heavily patched kernel
> ('everything' plus http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/)

Applied 055-b43-timb-position.patch and 057-b43-mcast.patch to commit
0347a7c86f. Multicast is buffered correctly and N800 sees them. Also
DTIM count and multicast bit are now correct in beacons.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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