Kalle Valo wrote: > 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? Sorry, the datasheets are not available outside. :) > > 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. Atheros HW can't currently support beacon filtering, so there is no need to handle TIM interrupt anyway. Sujith -- 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
