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Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw: Fix beacon filter flags thinko

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On Monday 11 February 2008 13:53:51 Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 16:03 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > We must not clear the FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC bit in the
> > new_flags. The zd-driver does support sending beacons and
> > probe responses to the host. What the flag does is say "Send me
> > all beacons and probe responses". And we actually do that. We always
> > do that, so we ignore the case when the bit is disabled. But that is
> > fine. But we must not clear the flag, as that tells mac80211 that
> > we do not support passing beacons and probe responses to the stack.
> > And that's not true.
> 
> Good explanation. Maybe it's needed with the filter flags defines/the
> config_filter callback description?

Yeah, I think so. Recent patches show that other people get it wrong, too. :)
I think I will submit a patch later.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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