On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 16:18 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > How about making it Kconfigable for broken AP support and add the > > warning there? > > That doesn't really associate the bad behavior with specific drivers. > Probably better to send something do dmesg and/or make hostap aware > of the issue. Indeed. It also doesn't help you when you're sitting on a train, IBSS mode isn't working and you need to exchange information with some other device :) Mind you, normal users would need to have NM support for APs anyway... > Any idea if many STAs are smart enough to stop going to sleep once > (or if) they realize they are missing frames? They barely have a chance to tell the difference between that and just regular packet loss, so I doubt any are. mac80211 certainly wouldn't be, and I don't see how to program such a thing easily. johannes
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