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Re: rt2x00: rt73usb doesn't receive PS Poll frames in the AP mode

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On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 16:36 +0400, Igor Perminov wrote:

> And here is my question: what would be the correct behaviour?
> A) The mac80211 stack should pass the FIF_CONTROL flag to the driver
> when the device is configured in the AP mode.
> B) The driver should configure the hardware to receive PS Poll frames by
> itself when the device is configured in the AP mode, even if the
> FIF_CONTROL flag isn't passed by the mac80211 stack.

Hmm. Passing up *all* control frames wouldn't really be good -- think of
all the ACK frames. Do you have filters per frame type?

Maybe we should introduce a FIF_PSPOLL flag?

johannes

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