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Re: [RFC 2/2] mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2015-09-01 12:12, Helmut Schaa wrote:
>> When debugging wireless powersave issues on the AP side it's quite helpful
>> to see our own beacons that are transmitted by the hardware/driver. However,
>> this is not that easy since beacons don't pass through the regular TX queues.
>>
>> Preferably drivers would call ieee80211_tx_status also for tx'ed beacons
>> but that's not always possible. Hence, just send a copy of each beacon
>> generated by ieee80211_beacon_get_tim to monitor devices when they are
>> getting fetched by the driver.
> How about also adding a hw flag to allow drivers to indicate that they
> submit tx status for beacons.

Makes sense, yes. Waiting for other comments before resending ...
Helmut
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