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Subject: Re: [Patch] mac80211: SMPS for AP Mode
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Vivekananda Holla <vivekanandah@posedge.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:46:22 +0200
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On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 15:05 +0530, Vivekananda Holla wrote:
> hi Johannes,
> 
> do you mean the IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS flag to set RTS/CTS
> protection for the packet?
> 
> I did not use this based on the below understanding
> 
> my understanding for SMPS is that a station system does not need to
> send an RTS packet before frame transmission for SMPS however an AP
> system needs to send out an RTS frame.

No? Where did you get that idea? It's wrong, it doesn't matter whether
it's AP or not.

johannes