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Re: [PATCH 6/7] mac80211: PS processing for every Beacon with our AID in TIM

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On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:01 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (mac80211-pspoll-on-every-beacon-tim.patch)
> If the AP includes our AID in the TIM IE, we need to process the
> Beacon frame as far as PS is concerned (send PS-Poll or nullfunc data
> with PM=0). The previous code skipped this in cases where the CRC
> value did not change and it would not change if the AP continues
> including our AID in the TIM..
> 
> There is no need to count the crc32 value for directed_tim with this
> change, so we can remove that part. In order not to change the order
> of operations (i.e., update WMM parameters prior to sending PS-Poll),
> the CRC match is checked twice as only after the PS processing step,
> the rest of the function is skipped if nothing changed in the Beacon.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Makes sense, thanks.

johannes

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