Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:32:43 +0200
From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>,
	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] carl9170: Fix memory accounting when sta is in power-save
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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.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA