On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:14 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> > > This patch makes mac80211 able to send action frames when toggling > (SM PS) Spacial Multiplexing Power Save mode. > > Example: > 1. > Low lever driver may close some of RX chains in power save mode > and needs to announce to AP that a RTS frame is need in order to wake all > RX chains, on other hand SM PS can be disabled on CAM mode or if HW is able > to wake all chains without RTS frame. > > 2. > iwlwifi can call this function when it detects that only > one antenna can effectively receive then MS PS mode is set to STATIC and > AP is asked not to send MIMO rates packets. Why is the driver managing the PS mode to start with? johannes
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