Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> writes: >> Other option is that the hardware which does not support checksumming >> would just pass beacons periodically to the stack, for example every 5 >> seconds. Even though beacon filter is enabled in mac80211 it does not >> prevent hardware from sending beacons. This is not the most optimal >> solution, but there's not much choices if the hardware doesn't support >> checksumming. > > While it would be possible to do that, it does not really solve many of > the use cases where Beacon contents can change and the STA is required > to take some action. For example, Channel Switch Announcement IEs would > likely be missed if a Beacon frames is passed through that infrequently. > I would assume the driver could enable this even if the hardware does > not use checksumming to detect Beacon changes, but this may severely > limit functionality in number of cases, so I'm not sure I would > recommend this to be done in general. Yes, definitely not recommended. I would classify it to "the ugly hack" category. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
