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Re: rt2x00 & mac80211: correct usage of ieee80211_beacon_get_tim?

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Am Donnerstag 24 Juni 2010 schrieb Johannes Berg:
>  b) You need to get a new beacon frame from mac80211 only when it
>     changes. You can do this from set_tim(). HOWEVER: since you're not
>     getting a new one from mac80211 all the time anyway, you NEED to
>     have the driver or firmware overwrite the DTIM count, like b43's
>     firmware for example will do.

And the broad- and multicast buffering also needs to be done in the driver
(when the fw/hw cannot handle it) as mac80211 uses its own DTIM count for
deciding when to "release" buffered frames to the driver.

Helmut
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