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Re: [PATCH 1/5] mac80211: give if_mesh a beacon

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On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 12:36 -0500, Thomas Pedersen wrote:

> >> > Also ... since you'll need PS support eventually anyway, maybe you
> >> > should refactor "struct ieee80211_if_ap" into something AP-specific
> >> > (currently only VLANs) and the rest, and then use "the rest" in mesh as
> >> > well to make all this code more unified.
> >>
> >> I like this approach much better. Are you suggesting just factoring
> >> out the PS data, or taking it further and creating a generic "if which
> >> beacons"?
> >
> > Well, I don't think "iface which beacons" is really what we need here --
> > IBSS sends beacons as well but we don't really have PS support there and
> > it'd be different anyway. But on the other hand, if you also factor out
> > the beacon pointer, you can embed that into both. Like I said, I think
> > from struct ..._if_ap you only have the vlan list that you don't want?
> 
> I'd rather just factor all the PS data out for now, and maintain the
> beacon separately. Is there Is there any good reason we'd want to lump
> these two together? ieee80211_beacon_add_tim() for example already
> treats these as separate.

No that's fine, I see no particular reason to do one or the other. Or
maybe actually I do -- beacon handling requires TX PS handling for the
TIM IE?

johannes

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