Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] mac80211: tell driver when dtim change detected
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 10:32 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> Anyway, that is just asking for
> problems due to the way a specific timestamps are defined to be used for
> the beacons that are followed by buffered multicast/broadcast frames.

That's actually an interesting point -- does anyone implement that
properly, or is that just a side note in the standard nobody even reads?
We certainly don't in mac80211 since we don't have that level of
synchronisation between the TSF and the beacon get function.

johannes


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