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Subject: Re: brcmsmac still woes, possible regression?
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 20:10:54 +0200
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On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 20:01 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:

> As part of the discussion over here I am proposing to get rid of the tx
> muting in brcmsmac as mac80211 already has that behaviour for passive
> channels if I am not mistaken (is this true, Johannes?).

Arend, I haven't really followed this discussion, can you elaborate?

On passive channels, when scanning, mac80211 will send a probe only
after receiving a frame on that channel. When associating, it has no
such behaviour, at least not directly, but I suppose it could be
implemented (waiting for the beacon)

johannes