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Hello,

>> IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM appears only in rt2x00mac.c

>It's also in b43 and p54. I think your grep-fu is weak ;)

Sorry, my grep was indeed wrong. You are right.
Mark


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "For AP mode, it must
>> honour IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM or set
>>               IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING and use the
>> ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() function"
>>
>> see:
>>  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/API
>
> Yup.
>
>> However, I found out that in wireless-testing, this is the situation:
>>
>>
>> IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM appears only in rt2x00mac.c
>
> It's also in b43 and p54. I think your grep-fu is weak ;)
>
>> There is a call to ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() only in:
>> 1) drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/beacon.c
>> 2) wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
>>
>> According to this , b43/b43legacy (Broadcom chips), Intel ipw2200,
>
> ipw2200 is a very special case, and it doesn't use mac80211 so that
> constant above won't occur in it anyway. Not sure if anybody has
> recently tried, I'd almost assume it's broken since the project hasn't
> been maintained forever, afaict.
>
> johannes
>
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