On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 13:38 +0200, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hello, > I indeed intend to fix the driver to do the buffering and use > _get_buffered_bc() (and also add sequence numbering, which is easier). > It will take time to fix it and to test it with hostapd and clients. > > When it will be ready, the only thing which will be needed is > to remove the "hw->wiphy->ap_ps_challenged = true" from > zd_mac_alloc_hw() in zd_mac.c. The other changes in the driver should > of course stay (adding handling of NL80211_IFTYPE_AP). > > As far as I understand, the zd1211rw is not the only one which does > not support buffering; (and I assume there will be other such drivers > without this support in the future); so it seems to me that the > nl80211 patch, which enable users who would prefer to have an AP that > can't support fully PS clients, rather than not having an AP at all, > is a good enough reason for the nl80211 patch. > > Using Linux as an access point with a standard and a wide range of > commodity wireless drivers seems really a nice and important feature. Well, I'd rather have the nl80211/cfg80211 part only when we find out that it's absolutely necessary. I don't see a problem in waiting now until you either figure out how to fix zd1211 or determine that it's not possible at all. johannes
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