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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 13:09 +0200, Rami Rosen wrote:

> If you are talking about whether the zd1211 driver can buffer
> mcast/bcast frames in software, it seems to me that the answer is
> negative, since there is no call for ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() in
> the zd1211rw driver code and also there is no handling of
> IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM or
> IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING in the zd1211rw driver code.
> This what made me add the NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_AP_PS_CHALLENGED
> attribute and prepare this patch.

Yes, I know that's why you did it, but I'm still wondering whether it
was necessary, is it really impossible to implement mcast/bcast
buffering with this hardware? IOW, can we fix the driver to do the
buffering and using _get_buffered_bc()?

johannes

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