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Subject: Re: mac80211 power management breakage?(was Re: Commit 741b4fbc44 (mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers) breaks rtl8187)
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> wrote:
<snipped>
> Do you mean this patch from Samuel which is in wireless-testing:
>
> commit 8f87dd7e540d455f8e7f11478133b85edc969c67
> Author: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
> Date:   Fri Jul 4 10:49:31 2008 +0200
>
>    mac80211: power management wext hooks

Yes.

<snipped>
> You are confusing AP and client mode PSM here,
> MAC80211_VERBOSE_PS_DEBUG is used for debugging PSM support in AP
> mode. Client mode PSM support is usually implemented in the driver or
> the firmware. We are planning to add some PSM support to mac80211, but
> it's still in the works.

Yes, I realised I was talking rubbish :-). But as you said, enabling
PS should have no effect whatsoever.
The other possibility is IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING, but that
also seems to be AP mode -specific.