Subject: Re: [RFC] carl9170: Fix memory accounting when sta is in
 power-save mode.
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:12:52 +0100
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On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 11:32 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:09:02PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 15:01 +0100, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> > > Hostapd already does that¹ ... after the association response is acked.
> > 
> > Ok maybe then we should send out assoc resp etc. frames and not subject
> > them to PS queueing? Jouni?
> 
> We should try to follow the clarified description of management frame
> buffering in P802.11-REVmb/D12.0 (i.e., soon to be published IEEE Std
> 802.11-2012). (Re)Association Response frame is not a bufferable
> management frame and as such, it needs to be sent out without being
> subject to PS queuing.

Ah yes, you mentioned before that this was being clarified but I forgot
about it again. I'll take a look.

johannes