Subject: Re: [PATCH ] zd1211rw: enable master mode. (wireless-testing)
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 10:27 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> I would be fine adding such a warning into hostapd if someone comes up
> with the patch and mac80211/nl80211 changes to provide the
> working-PS-mode capability flag.

Alright. I don't particularly care, so I'm not going to do that ;)

> Is the problem with zd1211rw just in PS buffering of multicast/broadcast
> frames or does it also have problems with unicast? Many use cases could
> handle the multicast/broadcast case, but if unicast PS buffering does
> not work properly, there may be more issues.. Anyway, this leaves a
> nasty surprise for the end user who may not even realize what power
> saving really means in context of 802.11 and would not have any way of
> figuring out why the connection does not work suddenly when the STA goes
> to power save mode.

unicast buffering should be doable well in software though, no?

johannes

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