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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: add uapsd_queues and max_sp params fields

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:50:44 +0300, Eliad Peller wrote:
>>
>> basically these params come from the supplicant on sta addition.
>> if the ap wasn't configured with uapsd, there won't be
>> NL80211_ATTR_STA_WME attribute, and these fields will be 0.
>>
>> devices with no uapsd support will ignore these fields.
>> am i missing something?
>
> Well, so, how will the user know whether the device supports uAPSD? Or, if
> the user asks hostapd to enable uAPSD, how will hostapd know if the device
> supports it or not?
>
Currently, hostapd just looks for the uapsd_advertisement_enabled config param.
i guess we can add and require ap_uapsd capability (on a different
patch?). but won't it break environments that use new supplicant with
old drivers?

Eliad.
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