Hi, Likely a mix of both. Eg, the RX filter stuff as mentioned above may mean that you need to listen to /all/ frames for a BSS, rather than just say data and beacon frames. If the beacon frame matching logic checks the frame version, you need to listen to /all/ of the frames.
For power management things, it's likely none of that will work, so you can't use things like auto-sleep based on beacon traffic / timers / TIM bitmap - you'd have to keep the NIC awake all the time. -adrian On 1 June 2016 at 04:34, Joerg Pommnitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adrian, > does "hardware assist...will likely not work" mean "forget it, won't work" > or "so it would have to be implemented in software instead"? > > > -- Regards Joerg > > > >> Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> schrieb am 17:53 Dienstag, 31.Mai 2016: >> > Hi, >> >> The other thing to keep in mind is the hardware assist for things like >> TIM parsing, wakeup, etc will likely not work. :) >> >> >> >> -a >> >> >> >> On 31 May 2016 at 03:50, Michal Kazior <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 31 May 2016 at 10:44, jpo <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> to implement a "Stealth feature", e.g. the WLAN network does >> not show up in >>>> normal Scans, we modified the Frame version, Beacon and Probe-Response >>>> values for an old ATH5K card running on the now dormant Madwifi driver. >>>> Question: Is the same thing even POSSIBLE with ath10k? My main concern >> is, >>>> that the firmware just won't handle non-standard values. >>>> >>>> Can somebody who understands the division of labor between mac80211, >> ath10k, >>>> the firmware and the hardware suppress his or her gag reflex long >> enough to >>>> think about this? >>> >>> First and foremost you'll need to use firmware with >> "raw-mode" support >>> - otherwise firmware just craps over frame headers. Some 10.2.4 >>> support it - you can look into the mailing list archive for some >>> discussions. >>> >>> Not sure if Rx will work though as firmware-controlled Rx filters may >>> prevent you from receiving frames with crazy frame_control values. >>> You'll need to check this out yourself. Some firmware revisions might >>> have RX_FILTER wmi command support but this isn't used/documented >>> anywhere and it's questionable how much it allows you to override. >>> >>> Whatever you find it'd be nice if you post whatever you find out (for >>> posterity :) >>> >>> >>> Michał >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ath10k mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k >> _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
