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To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: enable IBSS merging
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:43:09 +0100
Cc: "Bruno Randolf" <bruno@thinktube.com>,
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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
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Hi,

> Adding Johill and Michael as they are maintainers of mac80211 and they
> need to review this. Please add them on further mac80211 patches.
> 
> Note to driver authors: zd1211rw, rt2x00 drivers and adm8211 will need
> to set mactime if they want IBSS merge to work as this functionality
> would be added with this. I believe all other drivers set it, but
> didn't do a thorough grep.

Then there is a problem for rt2x00. Since the mactime isn't known.
rt2400pci is the _only_ device which has a RX_END_TIME field in the
RX descriptor.

Ivo