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Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: enabling 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 mac80211 to support the PS challenged mode when
> used in master mode.
> A new attribute, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_AP_PS_CHALLENGED, was added to
> nl80211_attrs; also a new member (ap_ps_challenged) was added to
> struct wiphy; and nl80211_send_wiphy() was adjusted accordingly.
> 
> User space applications (like hostapd) should check the
> NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_AP_PS_CHALLENGED
> attribute and  display a proper message, if it is set, to inform the
> users.

Maybe it would be better to require a switch to hostapd to enable
support for such devices?  Messages are too easy to ignore.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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