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Re: [PATCH 2/2] zd1211rw: enable an AP that can't support fully PS clients (wireless-testing).

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On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:44 +0200, Rami Rosen wrote:
> This patch enables master mode support in zd1211rw driver and enables
> it to support the PS challenged mode when used in master mode.
> 
> It adds this functionality in the zd1211rw driver by adding support to
> master mode (NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) in zd_op_add_interface() and in
> zd_mac_alloc_hw() methods
> of drivers/net/wireless/zd_mac.c.
> 
> In addition, the new boolean member of wiphy struct, ap_ps_challenged,
> is initialized to true in zd_mac_alloc_hw().

This is all fine, but I'm starting to wonder why we're doing this at
all. Have we actually determined that zd1211 cannot buffer mcast/bcast
frames at all? Might it be worth asking around in Zydas/Atheros?

johannes

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