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To: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/17] ath9k: Remove TIM from the interrupt mask
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:35:00 +0300
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Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> writes:

> -	/*
> -	 * Some hardware processes the TIM IE and fires an
> -	 * interrupt when the TIM bit is set.  For hardware
> -	 * that does, if not overridden by configuration,
> -	 * enable the TIM interrupt when operating as station.
> -	 */

This might be useful for beacon filtering. Does the hardware know to
parse the beacons in more detail, for example ERP protection or WMM
settings?

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Kalle Valo