Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:50683 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753359Ab1BNMJa (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:09:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/2] mac80211: add a function for setting the TIM bit for a specific station From: Johannes Berg To: Felix Fietkau Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi, lrodriguez@atheros.com, m.sujith@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1297207937-88528-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> References: <1297207937-88528-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:09:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1297685367.3785.33.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 00:32 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > When a driver wants to buffer some frames internally without feeding them > back to mac80211, this allows it to still wake up the station Why would the driver want to do this though? johannes