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Re: [PATCH ] zd1211rw: enable master mode. (wireless-testing)

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:30:19PM -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:01 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > Is there some way we could take that into account?  I'm sure there
> > are users who would prefer to have an AP (i.e. their laptop) that
> > can't support PS clients rather than not having an AP at all.
> 
> That's a good question. The distinction here is between empowering users
> to do the wrong thing (AP without proper PS support) and enforcing the
> right thing (with the consequence of complete loss of AP functionality).
> The issue I see here is that users will see "ohh shiny, AP support"
> without knowing that it doesn't actually really support it. Not sure
> which side of the line we want to stand on, I prefer the correctness
> side but I can see arguments for the other side, would just like to have
> users know. Maybe we could have some way to tell hostapd this and then
> have hostapd print a huge warning about it when started up?

How about making it Kconfigable for broken AP support and add the
warning there?

  Luis
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