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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: wait for beacon before enabling powersave

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:01:00AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Because DTIM information is required for powersave
> > but is only conveyed in beacons, wait for a beacon
> > before enabling powersave, and change the way the
> > information is conveyed to the driver accordingly.
> >
> > mwl8k doesn't currently seem to implement PS but
> > requires the DTIM period in a different way; after
> > talking to Lennert we agreed to just have mwl8k do
> > the parsing itself in the finalize_join work.
> 
> Not sure if this is merged yet. If not it might be good to add to the
> commit log a brief about the impact of the fix for distribution
> purposes looking to cherry pick some fixes that may cure some issues.

It's already merged...

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