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Re: [PATCHv2] mac80211: Copy tx'ed beacons to monitor mode

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On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 09:46 +0200, 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.
> 
> Also add a HW flag IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS that can be used by
> drivers to indicate that they report TX status for beacons.
> 
Applied.

johannes
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