On Saturday 25 February 2012 21:12:52 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 11:32 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:09:02PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 15:01 +0100, Nicolas Cavallari wrote: > > > > Hostapd already does that¹ ... after the association response is acked. > > > > > > Ok maybe then we should send out assoc resp etc. frames and not subject > > > them to PS queueing? Jouni? > > > > We should try to follow the clarified description of management frame > > buffering in P802.11-REVmb/D12.0 (i.e., soon to be published IEEE Std > > 802.11-2012). (Re)Association Response frame is not a bufferable > > management frame and as such, it needs to be sent out without being > > subject to PS queuing. > > Ah yes, you mentioned before that this was being clarified but I forgot > about it again. I'll take a look. > Actually, I think I found the problem in carl9170 [writing a patch atm]. [I forgot to check IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE and IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT flags]. [A simple fix: we could set something like TX_CTL_IGNORE_PS (now known as TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE) on outgoing auth & (re-)assoc frames] Regards, Chr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
