On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 19:36 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 10:32 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > > Anyway, that is just asking for > > problems due to the way a specific timestamps are defined to be used for > > the beacons that are followed by buffered multicast/broadcast frames. > > That's actually an interesting point -- does anyone implement that > properly, or is that just a side note in the standard nobody even reads? > We certainly don't in mac80211 since we don't have that level of > synchronisation between the TSF and the beacon get function. And, in fact, the DTIM count is kinda useless if one was to rely on that timing requirement, so I have a feeling that the intention of the people who wrote this bit of the standard wasn't to actually impose such a requirement. johannes
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