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On Mon, 4/12/17, Gabriele Gristina <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use these few
> byte from years and hostapd work like a charm.I
> don't understand why you write "completely
> wrong" but you are free to refuse this
> patch.
> Have a nice
> day,Gabriele
I think the issue was to do with hardware support of certain features - power-management (allowing the clients to sleep) and maintaining states across low-power states, and somewhat large number of clients. That it can work to some extent, and even to a very good extent, to serve a small number of clients - at full power, without power managrment - is not a surprise.
My impression that software (i.e. non-hardware) support was to improve to make it possible. Larry and others can comment on the current state.
On 12/04/2017 04:02 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
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> On Mon, 4/12/17, Gabriele Gristina <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I use these few
>> byte from years and hostapd work like a charm.I
>> don't understand why you write "completely
>> wrong" but you are free to refuse this
>> patch.
>> Have a nice
>> day,Gabriele
>
> I think the issue was to do with hardware support of certain features - power-management (allowing the clients to sleep) and maintaining states across low-power states, and somewhat large number of clients. That it can work to some extent, and even to a very good extent, to serve a small number of clients - at full power, without power managrment - is not a surprise.
>
> My impression that software (i.e. non-hardware) support was to improve to make it possible. Larry and others can comment on the current state.
Gabriele,
I agree that merely informing mac80211 that you support AP mode is unlikely to
provide full support for master mode, but I have not looked at that code for
many years.
If you can show that your "fix" does support many clients, and that it does not
go belly-up when one of them tries to go to low power, then I will agree to
merge your patch. Until then, merging it now would suggest that we are offering
a service that the driver does not really support.
BTW, why are you trying to create an AP with a 802.11G device? The performance
will be on par with what was expected 10 or 12 years ago.
Larry