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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:19:49 +0100
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Subject: Re: zd1211 3.0.0.56 "vendor driver" - please help port to zd1211rw
From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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2009/5/26 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 21:27 +0200, G?bor Stefanik wrote:
>
>> AFAIK the developers will never accept any AP mode for zd1211 devices,
>> as it has no multicast buffering feature in the hardware. (The vendor
>> driver, as well as the Windows driver implements AP mode with a spec
>> violation to get around the lack of a multicast buffer.)
>> CCing Johannes, he was the one who initially said that.
>
> Pretty much exactly it.

I think what I meant is, what else is needed for AP mode from mac80211
? Or is it 'never'?

Hin-Tak