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Re: [PATCH 11/17] ath9k: Remove TIM from the interrupt mask

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Vivek Natarajan <vivek.natraj@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> This might be useful for beacon filtering. Does the hardware know to
>> parse the beacons in more detail, for example ERP protection or WMM
>> settings?
>
> After a quick glance into the datasheet, I understand that the
> current version of hardware supports reading TIM, TSF and some more
> bits related to DTIM from a beacon.

Is the datasheet available somewhere?

> As far as this patch is concerned, since ath9k can use mac80211 for
> sending a null data frame, it is quite redundant to enable the TIM
> interrupt as it can be parsed in mac80211 itself.

Sure. But I was thinking the possibility of having beacon filtering in
ath9k and then mac80211 wouldn't receive the beacons.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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