Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: move PHY things to debugfs
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
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On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:45 +0000, Andy Green wrote:

> But if there is a better way for the stack to get unencrypted broadcasts=20
> (that is all I really want, addr1->FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF packets) through to=20
> usermode, which you would think might not actually require hardware=20
> promisc on the hardware, then I am quite motivated to work on that.

Well, no, there isn't. When a station is in powersave mode it relies on
the access point to buffer packets for it, which it obviously won't do
with such packets as you're sending.

johannes

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